
Product details
- Blick SKU
- 86356-3380
About this product range
Schmincke Horadam Aquarell Half Pans are individually optimized and formulated using the highest-quality pigments, water-soluble resins, and natural gums. Produced in Germany since 1881, the company is now owned by the fourth generation of the original family. Today the line includes an array of brilliant, intense, professional-quality colors — many of them with the highest lightfastness ratings of 4 or 5 stars. Smooth flowing and intermixable, colors that have dried on the palette can be reactivated with a wet brush.
Pigment information
General reference notes about pigments can describe other media (such as oil). They do not verify this product’s exact formulation or behavior.
Benzimidazolone Orange
- Pigment code
- PO62
- Type
- organic, monoazo
- Chemical formula
- C17H13ClN6O5
- Properties
- Benzimidazolone Orange is a staining, yellowish orange pigment that can become dull in tints. It has an average drying time, and it loses some of its intensity as it dries. The yellowish orange varieties are more transparent.
- Permanence
- Benzimidazolone Orange has excellent lightfastness and outstanding heat and solvent stability for a monoazo pigment.
- Toxicity
- Benzimidazolone Orange is not considered toxic.
- History
- The benzimidazolone group of pigments was developed and patented in 1960 by Hoechst A.G., a German chemical manufacturer that was a forerunner of the pharmaceutical company Aventis. Use of benzimidazolone pigments in the auto industry, especially Benzimidazolone Orange, became common in the 1980s because they were common replacements for lead chromate pigments, which were phased out during this period.
- Description
- Permanent Orange, Benzimida Orange
Pigment Red 242
- Pigment code
- PR242
- Type
- organic, disazo condensation
- Properties
- A bright yellowish red, often referred to as scarlet. It has average tinting strength.
- Permanence
- It has excellent resistance to solvents, acids, and alkali, and is heat stable up to 300°C. Disazo condensation compounds have very good lightfastness for organic pigments.
- History
- Pigment Red 242 is used to color plastics, paints, and printing inks.
- Description
- Fast Scarlet, Sandorin Scarlet
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