Ultramarine blue is a deep blue color pigment which was originally made by grinding lapis lazuli into a powder. The name comes from the Latin ultramarines, which literally means "beyond the sea". Ultr...

Ultramarine blue is a deep blue color pigment which was originally made by grinding lapis lazuli into a powder. The name comes from the Latin ultramarines, which literally means "beyond the sea". Ultramarine blue has small, uniformly sized particles of a single color, but (being a ground-up natural stone) lapis pigment is a mix of colors and irregularly shaped particles, which have a different texture and reflect light differently. Ultramarine Blue is extremely safe, environmentally friendly and nonhazardous blue pigment with various applications worldwide. It’s obtained by a synthetic manufacturing process and thus possibility for close control over its physical, chemical and colour characteristics, enables the production of distinct types of blue pigment, which are readily accepted by plastic, printing ink, paint, cement, soaps, and detergents, paper and many other industries due to the added advantages it possesses over other organic pigments and dyes..