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    Cobalt glass (redirect from Smalt)
    Cobalt glass—known as "smalt" when ground as a pigment—is a deep blue coloured glass prepared by including a cobalt compound, typically cobalt oxide or...
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  • was powdered smalt (cobalt glass) used in laundering and dyeing applications, and it then came to be used as a colour name from 1894. Smalt has a deep,...
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    a pigment. It has been used since the Middle Ages to make smalt, a blue-colored glass. Smalt is produced by melting a mixture of roasted mineral smaltite...
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    paint. Transparent glasses are tinted with the silica-based cobalt pigment "smalt". Ores containing cobalt have been used since antiquity as pigments to give...
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    red porphyry are placed. Next to the pilasters are bands of bright red smalt, to the right of which are bands of black labradorite. This combination...
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    beginning in the late eighth or early ninth century. Cobalt glass, or Smalt, is a variation of cobalt blue. It is made of ground blue potassium glass...
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  • added to rinse water for centuries, first in the form of powder blue or smalt, or using small lumps of indigo and starch, called stone blue. After the...
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  • impure cobalt arsenate. During the Victorian Era, zaffre was used to prepare smalt and to stain glass blue. The first recorded use of zaffer as a color name...
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    achieved using cochineal. Yellow could come from saffron, and pale blue from smalt. The bluish tint of a ruff was supposed to make the wearer's complexion...
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    S. Beudant in 1832 because the mineral was used in the preparation of smalt for producing a blue color in porcelain and glass. Spencer 1911, p. 249...
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