Recently, there are many pigment customers call, consulting the difference between organic pigments and inorganic pigments, usually how to distinguish between organic pigments and inorganic pigments.

In fact, how to distinguish between organic pigments and inorganic pigments is the common voice of most pigment users.

Although, users can search in Baidu or Google, there will be many questions and answers on how to differentiate between inorganic pigments and organic pigments. The answers are so many and so varied that they are here to be finely integrated.

In short, organic pigments are mainly composed of organic compounds and do not contain metal elements;

Inorganic pigments are oxides, minerals or salts that contain a combination of standardized metallic elements. The metal elements contained are: lead, cadmium, chromium, aluminum, manganese, zinc, barium, titanium, iron, cobalt and so on.

Organic pigments have various structures, complete chromatograms, bright and pure colors, strong coloring power, small density, and non-toxicity; however, some of the products are poor in light resistance, weather resistance, and solvent resistance.

Inorganic pigments are heavier, with high temperature resistance, low temperature, medium temperature and high temperature. The metal content is qualified and non-toxic.