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Colours made from lead chromate

2 colours that our sources say are made from lead chromate.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Chrome yellow: FK1954, CC0, source
School bus yellow: BMRR ( talk ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source

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