White paint can be made of many things. It can come from chalk or zinc, barium or rice, or from little fossilized sea creatures in limestone graves. The Dutch artist Jan Vermeer even made some of his luminescent whites with a recipe that included alabaster and quartz-in lumps that took the light reflected into the painting and made it dance.3
( Victoria Finlay )
[ Color: A Natural History of ]
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