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Definition of Smalt

Smalt
Smalt Smalt, n. [It. smalto, LL. smaltum; of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. smalz grease, butter, G. schmalz grease, OHG. smelzan to melt, G. schmelzen. See Smelt, v. t., and cf. Amel, Enamel.] A deep blue pigment or coloring material used in various arts. It is a vitreous substance made of cobalt, potash, and calcined quartz fused, and reduced to a powder.

Meaning of Smalt from wikipedia

- Cobalt gl****—known as "smalt" when ground as a pigment—is a deep blue coloured gl**** prepared by including a cobalt compound, typically cobalt oxide or...
- was powdered smalt (cobalt gl****) used in laundering and dyeing applications, and it then came to be used as a colour name from 1894. Smalt has a deep,...
- paint. Transparent gl****es are tinted with the silica-based cobalt pigment "smalt". Ores containing cobalt have been used since antiquity as pigments to give...
- a pigment. It has been used since the Middle Ages to make smalt, a blue-colored gl****. Smalt is produced by melting a mixture of roasted mineral smaltite...
- S. Beudant in 1832 because the mineral was used in the preparation of smalt for producing a blue color in porcelain and gl****. Spencer 1911, p. 249...
- many different colours were available: gold (using mica), blue (using smalt or verditer), black (using lamp black), white (using lead white), yellow...
- achieved using cochineal. Yellow could come from saffron, and pale blue from smalt. The bluish tint of a ruff was supposed to make the wearer's complexion...
- Peter Paul Rubens. The green skirt of Deborah Kip is painted in azurite, smalt, blue verditer (artificial form of azurite), yellow ochre, lead-tin-yellow...
- red porphyry are placed. Next to the pilasters are bands of bright red smalt, to the right of which are bands of black labradorite. This combination...
- Over this he put an additional layer of glaze made of mixture of blue smalt, red ochre, and yellow lake. Using these ingredients and many others, he...