Pigment Information
This color contains the following pigments:
PY93-Microlith Yellow 4G-A
Pigment Name
PY93-Microlith Yellow 4G-A
Pigment Type
organic, disazo condensation
Chemical Formula
Properties
Pigment Yellow PY93 is a greenish to medium yellow pigment with moderate tinting strength.
Permanence
Pigment Yellow PY93 exhibits very good to excellent lightfastness. Disazo condensation pigments are more expensive to manufacture than their monoazo and disazo counterparts, but their lightfastness and stabilty is considered to provide a justification for this expense in applications such as art materials.
Toxicity
History
Pigment Yellow PY93 is used primarily to color plastics. Because of its expense, its use in commercial paints and printing inks is very limited, except where a high degree of lightfastness is required from a yellow pigment.
