Lithopone - Lithopone (English spelling)

Japanese: リトポン - りとぽん(英語表記)lithopone
Lithopone - Lithopone (English spelling)

A white pigment made from a mixture of zinc sulfide and barium sulfate. When a zinc sulfate solution is added to a barium sulfide solution and reacted, the above co-precipitates. This is washed, filtered, dried, and then baked at around 800°C in an airtight container, then dropped into water and quenched to obtain the pigment. It has good hiding power and coloring power, and is also highly resistant to water and alkali, but is attacked by dilute acids. It turns black when mixed with water and exposed to sunlight.

In Japan, due to the rising cost of pollution prevention facilities, it was no longer profitable to produce it, and production was discontinued in July 1973. It is now mainly imported from China and Germany. Most of it is used as white paint.

[Jun Otsuka]

[Reference items] | Pigments | Zinc sulfide | Barium sulfate

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

硫化亜鉛と硫酸バリウムの混合物からなる白色顔料。硫化バリウム溶液に硫酸亜鉛溶液を加えて反応させると前記のものが共沈する。これを洗浄、濾過したのち乾燥し、空気を断ってついで800℃前後で焼き、水中に投じ急冷させて得る。隠蔽(いんぺい)力、着色力とも良好、耐水性、耐アルカリ性にも優れるが、希酸には侵される。水と練って太陽光線を照射すると黒変する。

 日本では公害防止施設費の高騰などで採算があわず、1973年(昭和48)7月に生産が中止され、主として中国、ドイツから輸入されている。大部分が白色ペイントとして用いられる。

[大塚 淳]

[参照項目] | 顔料 | 硫化亜鉛 | 硫酸バリウム

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