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unusual facts about Prussian blue


Prussian blue

To date, the "Entombment of Christ", dated 1709 by Pieter van der Werff (Picture Gallery, Sanssouci, Potsdam) is the oldest known painting where Prussian blue was used.


Cyanogen

Gay-Lussac coined the word "cyanogène" from the Greek words κυανός (kyanos, blue) and γεννάω (gennao, I create), because cyanide was first isolated by the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele from the pigment "Prussian blue".

Heinrich Diesbach

Johann Jacob Diesbach was a German pigment and dye producer known for his accidental discovery of a method for making a blue known as Prussian blue, AKA iron blue, Berlin blue.


see also

Cyan

Cyanotype, or blueprint, a monochrome photographic printing process that predates the use of the word cyan as a color, yields a deep cyan-blue colored print based on the Prussian blue pigment.