Colours made from sulfur
14 colours that our sources say are made from sulfur.
Blue
Methylene blue
A synthetic blue dye and medicine first made in 1876Dye
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Ultramarine
A deep blue pigment once made from lapis lazuli, prized for centuries in artPigment 路 馃嚘馃嚝 Afghanistan +2
Red
Realgar
An orange-red arsenic sulfide mineral once used as a pigment and poisonPigment 路 馃嚚馃嚦 China +5
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Vermilion
A brilliant orange-red pigment, once made from toxic mercury orePigment 路 馃嚬馃嚪 Turkey +5
White
Barium sulfate
A dense, white mineral used in pigments, X-rays, and industryPigment
Blue
Lazurite
A deep blue mineral that gives lapis lazuli its colourColour named from nature 路 馃嚘馃嚝 Afghanistan +2
Green
Chromium(III) oxide
A strong green pigment and polishing compound made from chromium orePigment
Yellow
Cadmium sulfide
A bright yellow pigment and semiconductor compound made from cadmium and sulfurPigment
Red
Cerium(III) sulfide red
A bright red pigment made from a rare earth sulfide compoundPigment
Gold and metallics
Mosaic gold
A yellow pigment made from tin(IV) sulfide, used for gilding and bronzingPigment
Blue
Indigo carmine
A water-soluble blue dye made from indigo, used in food, medicine and sciencePigment 路 馃嚭馃嚫 United States
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Lazurite: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Barium sulfate: de:Benutzer:the-viewer, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cadmium sulfide: Marco Almbauer, Public domain, source
- Realgar: G茅ry PARENT, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Chromium(III) oxide: Solid State, Public domain, source
- Methylene blue: Amanda Slater, Flickr user amandabhslater, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Ultramarine: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Mosaic gold: Giovanni Segantini, Public domain, source
- Vermilion: 毓購孬賲丕賳, CC0, source
- Indigo carmine: -- 銉°儷銉撱儷 ( talk ) 08:10, 28 January 2011 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, source