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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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- close semblance to the light pastel shade of cyan common on bed sheets. Smalt has also been known under other names such as azurblau, Bohemian Blue, Dutch...
- impure cobalt ****nate. During the Victorian Era, zaffre was used to prepare smalt and to stain gl**** blue. The first recorded use of zaffer as a color name...
- 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...
- usual baroque pigments such as red ochre, lead-tin-yellow, madder lake and smalt and also his elaborate multilayer painting technique. List of paintings...
- including: Ultramarine, made from the minerals lapis lazuli or azurite; and Smalt, now known as cobalt blue. Blue, especially the pigment ultramarine, was...
- of ceramics and is decorated with Gzhel painting, with pieces of gl**** smalt used in the manufacture of the mosaic panels. The central apse dedicated...