Life is colorful with its versatile shades and tones. Initially, it started with a black and white tone in the yesteryear TV or Camera generation but now if your look around, there is a comprehensive touch of color in every corner of life and it plays a perfect sync with our ever colorful environmental nature.
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Pigments have been part and parcel of human civilization. Both natural and our man made world are full of various kind or natural and synthetic pigments. We can get pigments from nature in many ways such as pigment powder from mineral rocks or pigment extracts from flowers, leaves, fruit peels and so on. Human beings have successfully produced a synthetic range of all the pigments available in nature and many other pigments by combination of two or more colors.
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Pigments are an inseparable part of human civilization. We all are surrounded by pigments in every sphere of life. Whether it is clothes we wear, food we eat, cosmetics we use, paint we do on our houses, books or magazines we read, computer on which we work and the list is endless in which pigments show their presence to add color and brightness in our lives. The category of the pigment can be natural, synthetic, organic, and inorganic and so on but presence of a pigment is a must.
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Colors and dyes make a world of difference to products by making them look colorful, glossy, and attractive enough to be purchased. If most of the products had been kept the way they were manufactured initially not many would have flown off the shelves. The color industry and its various methods are as variegated as the many shades available. What is amazing is the amount of care and caution taken to produce each shade. But then the method of applying is different, depending on the material that is being painted.
Colors are for universally usage and pervade almost every sphere of life. They come as powders and liquids and can be used in food, clothes, fabric and in many other places. Most of the fabric strands are produced colorless or white at the initial stages but they have to be dyed to bring the desired colors.
Life would have been black and white, if colors weren’t invented! This shows the significance of dyes in our life. The process of dyeing dates long back, where these dyes were extracted, from different plants and animals. However, with time, man created synthetic dyes, which definitely are now used worldwide. These dyes have become an essential part of textile, paper, printing ink, food, cosmetic and paint industry. The application depends on the type of dye being used and the chemical with the help of which it is made:
Pigments can be considered as the heart and the soul of the textile industry, although pigments and dyes are used in a most of industries, right from coating to construction and everything in between. However, it is estimated that around 70% of pigments produced are consumed by the textile industry alone. Thus, textile industry is the primary consumer of pigments.