pigment

In a sentence

Six example sentences with pigment, each labelled with its topic.

• The workshop ground lapis into a costly blue pigment, then bound it with egg yolk before the panel could be started.

  Art

• Archival prints use carbon pigment rather than dye, which is why they survive a century of window light without fading.

  Photography

• A pinch of saffron releases enough pigment to turn an entire pot of rice a deep orange gold.

  Cooking

• Chemists identified the pigment as iron oxide, which explained why the red never faded under decades of ultraviolet light.

  Science

• Tyrian purple pigment came from thousands of crushed sea snails, which is why only emperors could afford the robes.

  History

• The architect mixed a warm ochre pigment into the concrete itself, so the color runs all the way through the walls.

  Architecture

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