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Classification & Selection Criteria of Pigments

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Pigments in layman’s terms are materials that possess certain properties that enable them to lend color to other materials. A lot of varieties of pigments can be found in the market what with them having a wide application in almost all spheres of life. However, the properties of each pigment determine the application for which they are most suited and selected.

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Lending a Dash of Color to the Food & Beverage Industry

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Pigments and dyes are two colorants that are being widely used in several commercial and industrial applications. Though fundamentally they come from the same building block, dyes and pigments differ from one another in one major aspect and that is dyes are soluble in the medium in which they are mixed while pigments are non-soluble.

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