[SML] advice on some old pigment

[Richard Niederberg]

Dear Mr. Archer,
For many if the same reasons that we don't suffer Radiation Sickness
from beautiful Cobalt glass filled with wine, but drinking too much
wine from a Pewter Chalice can be dangerous.
/s/ Richard
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Richard John Archer via Stagecraft
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
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>> But as I noted, Chrome yellow is lead based, in very fine particles. There's a reason scenic shops stopped using this stuff, and it's not just that it was a mess - it's pretty toxic to be around, and certainly to inhale. I shudder to think of how much I used to inhale when working without respirators or even masks (enough that blowing one's nose could be a colorful experience for days after).
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>> --
>> Pat Kight
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> I believed I've mentioned before how I always "loved" the way malachite green kept "coming back".  You wash  it off and later it would "reappear" because it had been absorbed into your skin.   It is (was?)  used as a stain for cell tissue samples because of it's ease in transversing cell membranes.
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> So why aren't we dead yet?
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> DickA
> TD, Cornell U
> Now old enough to know better,  but maybe not 45 years ago when painting with this stuff.
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/s/ Richard
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