Vibrant, colorful textiles have indeed made our world a brighter place to live in. Most of us will be aware that the existence of these colorful textiles has been made possible through the usage of textile dyes. The dyes seep into the cloth changing it chemically and causing the color to remain there permanently in spite of continuous use.
Dyes and pigments are two colorant types that have made a great impact in each and every aspect of our life. Pigments are used in a host of applications ranging from paints, inks, plastics, textiles, automotive, military and hordes of other areas. Ease of application of these pigments is determined by pigment preparations.
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Dyes and pigments are two kinds of colorants that have found their way into every aspect of our lives. As far as the industrial sector is concerned, several types of dyes and pigments are being used in large amounts in a series of applications. Dyes are soluble substances which have an affinity towards the substrate and the industries which find use for them are leather, textile, cement, plastic, paper industry and many more. Pigments on the other hand are insoluble substances and are available in granular or powder form. Their mode of imparting colour is through the reflection of specific light rays. The industries where pigments find maximum use are the inks and paint industry.
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What are Pigments?
Pigments are generally coloured, organic or inorganic solid powder, and usually are insoluble. They are not affected physically or chemically in the substrate in which they are incorporated. Pigments can give a full range of colours. Pigments have a variety of applications that includes plastics, ink, and coating application. They are obtained in a powder form and are mixed with a liquid to be used as a solution for several applications.Pigments have become an indispensable item in almost all the industries today. There is no industry which does not have some role or the other for pigments in today’s times. Pigments impart color to solids and liquids and help to enhance their look many times over.
Formation of perfect paint with perfect viscosity, spreading capacity, stability and achievement of perfect color shade has to go through a proper system. Lack of quality or perfection in any of the step of formation of perfect paint can give you undesired results. Like other steps, use of good quality dispersant in perfect quantity is very important in formation of paint.
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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.