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PROJECTS MAKING PIGMENTS

Making Pigments

Written by Sean T. McBeth

TIME: 1 HOUR OVER 2 DAYS COST: $10–$20

Illustrated by Nate Van Dyke; Photograph by Gregory Hayes

Use household materials and simple electrolysis to make metal oxide powders for tinting paints.

After reading about ferrofluids (liquids with magnetic properties) in MAKE, I started trying ...

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