The winter blues have competition! While trying to find new electronic properties for compunds, the researchers at Oregon State University accidentally discovered a new blue resulting from experiments with Manganese Oxide. (See: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/science/24obpigment.html?_r=2) Unfortunately, tubes of this new blue won't be hitting the art supply stores anytime soon.
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I remember when Phthalo Blue first hit the stores, but I won't say how long ago that was!! -FSH
What year would that be??? I know it was discovered in the 1930's, but it can be decades before a pigment hits the market. Here is an interesting clarifcations of pigments vs. dyes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigment
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