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Blue Is The Warmest Colour
by RAN JADEN CAO
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中国色 - 中国传统颜色
中国色 - 中国传统颜色
在没有化学颜料的秦代,兵马俑身上的"中国紫"是怎么调出来的?
在没有化学颜料的秦代,兵马俑身上的"中国紫"是怎么调出来的?
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This 2000-Year-Old Pigment Can Eliminate The Third Dimension
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So how exactly did the Chinese stumble upon the intricate formula to make Han purple, which involved combining silica (sand) with copper and barium in precise proportions and heating to about 850-1000 °C? A team of Stanford physicists published a paper in the Journal of Archaeological Science ( summary here ), which proposes that Han purple was a by-product of the glass-making process, as both glass and the purple pigment contain silica and barium. Io9.com writes that barium makes glass shinier and cloudy, which means this pigment could be the work of early alchemists trying to synthesize white jade.

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