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Ma erial Name: bari m chroma e

Description
A banana-color yellow pigment that is also called barium yellow. Barium chromate is precipitated from a barium chloride solution by the addition of potassium dichromate. Barium yellow is a fairly permanent pigment but it may turn green slowly in light. It has low tinting strength and opacity. It was not widely used as an artists pigment by itself but was sometimes mixed with strontium yellow and zinc yellow then sold under the name lemon yellow or citron yellow. It was also used for coloring glass and ceramic glazes. C urrently barium chromate is used in anticorrosion pastes and in metal primers.

S non ms and Related Terms

barium yellow; Pigment Yellow 31; C I 77103; Bariumchromat (Deut.); chromate de baryum (Fr.); cromato de bario (Esp.); amarillo de bario (Esp.); chromiko bario (Gr.); giallo di bario (giallo di barite) (It.); barium chromaat (Ned.); cromato de brio (Port.); amarelo de brio (Port.); ultramarine yellow; lemon yellow; lemon chrome; permanent yellow; baryta yellow; Steinbuhl yellow C omposition C AS Molecular Weight Density Refractive Index BaC rO4 10294-40-3 mol. wt. = 253.32 4.45-4.49 1.94 - 1.98

Other Properties
Soluble in mineral acids. Insoluble in water or dilute acetic acid. Microscopically, it may appear as colorless, birefracting, rhombic plates,

Ha ards and Safet

Human carcinogen. Skin contact may cause allergies. Acute ingestion may cause fatal chromium poisoning. C hronic inhalation may cause lung cancer and respiratory irritation. C ombustible. Barium and C hemicals: MSDS

Additional Information
H. Kuhn, M.C urran, "C hrome Yellow and Other C hromate Pigments", A i Pigmen , Volume 1, R. Feller (ed.), C ambridge University Press: C ambridge, 1986.

Images
4 total images Bari m chroma e Photomicrograph of barium chromate at 200X. From the McC rone Paint Pigment Reference Set. Due to small particle size, it is difficult to differentiate particles of cadmium yellow from that of other pigments with an optical microscope. Sample provided by the MFA Scientific Research Lab. Photo credit: Keith Lawrence, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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