Chrome orange

[5] In basic solution, single-crystalline Pb2CrO5 could be formed by heating lead acetate and potassium dichromate with microwave radiation for only 10 minutes at 90 Celsius.

[5] The bundle and rod-shaped structures are sensitive to electron beam irradiation, which will turn them into many small particles.

[7] In a catalog published c. 1835, Winsor and Newton paint company identify ten synthetic pathways for producing chrome orange, also called deep yellow.

[8] Controlling the pH was Winsor and Newton's method for creating pigments from the pale yellow to the deep chrome orange.

[8] The natural mineral crocoite was discovered in 1797 by Louis Vauquelin and chrome orange was synthesized as a pigment for the first time in 1809.

The yellow-orange pigment of the boat in Renoir’s 1879 painting, The Seine at Asnières (The Skiff) at the National Gallery, London.

Chrome orange was used extensively in Frederic Leighton 's Flaming June (1895; Museo de Arte de Ponce ). [ 1 ]
Chrome orange