• doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    It also happens to be cheap. Other pigments are hard to manufacture. Rust is easy.

    Even today red paint is sometimes cheaper, especially when ordered in bulk.

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      1 year ago

      Wait really red pigment is mainly rust? I’d imagine that would turn a orangish brown. Or brownish orange.

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        1 year ago

        It’s not mainly rust any more, they figured out a way to replicate the effect without using actual rust. It’s just pigment, and now red is probably cheaper because more people buy it because it’s traditional.

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        I thought red faded the fastest? It’s always the first color to dissappear from advertisements in store windows. Also I remember hearing about people needing to get the red ink on their tattoos touched up after so many years though I think newer ink has improved