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Pyrrole Red is opaque and has strong covering power, and is a clean, highly saturated mid-shade red with high-temperature resistance, excellent colour strength, outstanding chemical, solvent, bleed resistance, and good weather fastness. Pyrrole Red is considered to have excellent lightfastness among organic pigments in its class. When mixed with Azo Green (the two colours green/yellow hues in one is a subtle murky green mass tone combined with a brilliant transparent yellow glaze) makes excellent skin tones with added zinc white to the mix.

COMPOSITION AND PERMANENCE

Pigment Combination: PR254-Pyrrole Red

PIGMENT NAME: PR254-PYRROLE RED

Pigment Type: Organic, aminoketone

Chemical Name: Bis-(p-chlorophenyl)-1. 4-diketopyrrolo (3. 4-c) pyrrole

Properties

Pyrrole Red is opaque and has strong covering power. According to manufacturer Ciba, which uses the trade name Irgazin Red, it is a clean, highly saturated mid-shade red with high-temperature resistance, excellent colour strength, outstanding chemical, solvent, bleed resistance, and good weather fastness.

Permanence

Pyrrole Red is considered to have excellent lightfastness among organic pigments in its class. Tests in industrial applications have given it scores of 7-8 on the Blue Wool Scale.

Toxicity

According to the Australian government's Ministry on Health and Aging, The notified chemical exhibited low oral and dermal toxicity in rats did not exhibit toxic effects when administered orally to rats for 28 days; it was not a skin irritant in a rabbi.

History

Pyrrole Red, used as an automotive paint and as a colourant in plastics, was developed as a range of pigments to replace lead-based pigments. In art materials, it is often used as a synthetic and lightfast replacement for carmine, a laked pigment initially produced from the body of the cochineal insect. It also replaces the older naphthol reds, organic red pigments that are sometimes only marginally lightfast and weather fast.