All paint articles – Page 2
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OpinionThe great art forgery blunder
Indian yellow is a pigment often used to spot fake art. But what if the reference standard was wrong?
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ResearchElemental imaging could authenticate Ming brushstrokes
New insight into royal painting techniques
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ResearchX-ray fluorescence reveals van Eyck’s original colours
Elemental imaging shows alterations to famous Ghent Altarpiece by the van Eyck brothers
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ResearchTheory of crack networks helps understand paint ageing
New model could benefit art conservators and geologists
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ResearchChemists uncover original colour of Finnish palace clock
Clock faces changed back to black after spectroscopy reveals paint composition
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NewsAkzoNobel sponsors colour garden at Chelsea Flower Show
Display celebrates plants that have been used historically to make dyes, and highlights a new project to capture nature’s structural colours in paint
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CareersMarine paint innovation
Nina Notman visits the AkzoNobel site in Gateshead and meets the scientists designing the next generation of environmentally-friendly marine paints
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PodcastTributyltin
Helen Scales investigates tributyltin, banned from use as anti-fouling paint for causing ‘imposex’ in marine life
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FeatureThe colourful science
Philip Ball traces how chemists and artists have been inspiring each other for centuries
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NewsGlowing roads take a rain check
Moisture seeping into the photoluminescent strips dampens their illumination
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PodcastPrussian blue
Laura Howes looks back to a time when feeling blue was a good thing - and wearing it was ‘bling’
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Business
AkzoNobel sells $1bn chunk of paints business
North American decorative paints business was responsible for 7% of total AkzoNobel sales in 2011, amounting to $1.5 billion
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Business
DuPont sells car paints for $5bn
US investment group picks up 11,000 employees and $4 billion in annual sales
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Business
BASF parts with paints
German and French parts of subsidiary Relius sold to wholesaler Prosol
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