Photomicrograph: Unmixed clumps of pigment
The flat panel of Homer’s “Japanned tin box” would have served him well as he blended vermillion and chrome yellow—identified using X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy—for the pumpkins.
Photomicrograph of For to Be a Farmer’s Boy, showing clumps of unmixed chrome yellow pigment. Original magnification 8x.
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