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Some are natural products, notably the earths, (umbers, ochres etc.); others come from metal compounds and are sometimes termed ‘traditional’ or ‘genuine’, (cadmiums, cobalts, titanium). Finally, the distillation of petroleum yields an ever widening range of organic pigments which are often termed as ‘modern’.
