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Pigment
Pigment gives colour to paint. Pigment is a coloured substance either mineral, vegetable, or synthetic, that is wetted and suspended in a vehicle to make paint. Depending on its physical and chemical compisition it may be opaque, translucent, or transparent and either permanent or fugitive.





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