lithopone pigment suppliers

To make up the batch of lithopone the solution containing the original 1050 pounds of barium sulphide and 856 pounds of titanium acid cake is added to sufiicient zinc sulphate solution of approximately 35 Baum at 60 Centigrade to completely precipitate all the BaS as zinc sulphide and barium sulphate so that the final precipitate contains a suspen-. sion of co-p'recipitated zinc sulphide barium sulphate intimately mixed with a suspension of titanium oxide. On the completion of the reaction, shown by the complete absence of either soluble zinc or barium in a filtered por-.

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Drobne et al. used the terrestrial arthropod Porcellio scaber as a test organism for determining the cytotoxic effect of TiO2 NPs (anatase). The animals were exposed to TiO2 NPs of two different sizes (25 nm and 75 nm) in the concentration range 10–1000 μg TiO2/g dry food for 3 to 14 days. No adverse effects, such as mortality, body weight changes or reduced feeding, were observed. In fact, quite the opposite, an enhanced feeding rate, food absorption efficiency and increase in catalase activity were observed. The intensity of these responses appeared to be time- but not dose-dependent. It should also be noted that the concentrations tested in this study were much higher than the predicted concentration (4.8 μg/g soil) at high emission scenario of nano-sized TiO2. Using the same test organism another group showed that exposure to TiO2 NPs induced destabilization of cell membrane in the epithelium of digestive glands isolated from exposed animals. They also showed that this effect can be observed after just 30 minutes of exposure.

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