Deadly chemical cousins: oranges and yellows | Stories in Colour Podcast S2 Ep3 | National Gallery

Deadly chemical cousins: oranges and yellows | Stories in Colour Podcast S2 Ep3 | National Gallery

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What makes two volcano-born pigments so dangerous? Hint: they weren’t scorching hot when artists used them. Orpiment and realgar both contain arsenic, a foe we’ve previously faced on ‘Stories in Colour’.