In addition to its pharmaceutical applications, barium sulphate is extensively utilized in the production of paints and coatings, where a bright white pigment is essential. The opacity and brightness provided by barium sulphate make it a popular choice in formulations for white and colored paints. Its non-toxic nature and excellent stability enhance its appeal in these products.

Titanium dioxide is used a food colour (E171) and, as with all food colours, its technological function is to make food more visually appealing, to give colour to food that would otherwise be colourless, or to restore the original appearance of food. Titanium dioxide is also present in cosmetics, paints, and medicines.

Titanium Dioxide is one of the two members of the elite sunscreen group called physical sunscreens (or inorganic sunscreens if you’re a science geek and want to be precise).

3. Solubility: insoluble in water.

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