What’s Pearl Pigment & How It’s Us

1. What’s Pearl Pigment & How It’s Used Do you know something about the pearl pigment? Maybe you heard of pigment. A pigment is a material that changes the color of reflected or transmitted light as the result of wavelength- selective absorption. What is pearl pigment? It is a kind of inorganic pigment, have some special features: non-metallic, not including the heavy metal, chemical inertia, non-poisonous, safe for the surrounding and human being. You may see many different types of pearl pigments here. The most common type is the silver white pearl pigment. It is mica powder coated by titanium oxide, and according to lights' many times reflection, it produced pearl luster. If the mica powder's particle size is bigger, the pearl luster will be better, but the coverage will be worse. Silver white pearl pigment consists mica coated with TiO2. The different coating layer and the different particle size of mica will produce pearlescent pigments with different silver white effect. For TiO2, there are two kinds: one is Rutile, the other is Anatase. So, if asked for high weather resistant it is better to choose Rutile products. For Mica if the particle size is different, the pearlescent effect will be different as well. If the particle size is coarse it has better luster and higher transparency, even produce a shimmer effect. But for the smaller particle size, it has soft luster and strong coverage performance. In pace with the growth of living condition, people demand to have more luster paint perfect in color for indoor decoration, and pearl luster pigment is the answer. Pearl luster pigment is excellent in dispersion, and good in physical and chemical property. As such, pearl luster pigment is suitable for mixture with any single-color paint to make pearl paint, which not only affect the color result, but also enhance the color expression of paint. Aqueous pigment dispersions are widely used in different industry. In addition, pearl luster pigment also is suitable for most of both oil-base and water-base paint, especial for see-through materials which can promise you the desirable result. However, when pearl luster pigment makes into a mixture with non-transparent paints, the result of pearl luster may seriously affected. Another thing that should be circled out is never process the pearl luster pigment in grinding machine with high shearing stress to avoid destroy the structure and luster of the pigment. The products have more than one hundred varieties, widely used in various industries, such as paint, plastic, ink, leather, printing, dyeing, rubber, paper making, master batch, etc, and give their products enthralling outlooks and gentlest luster. For more information visit: wcmfgr.com