Chrome in a Crystalline Glaze
Using chrome to color a crystalline glaze isn’t a popular choice. The high zinc content necessary to get zinc-silicates almost assures the user of gaining variations of brown.
In moderate to high quantities, the glaze looks muddy and dark. In very small quantities, chrome can be used with other colorants to produce a more pleasant hue.
The bottle shown below from 2002, included small amounts of CrO + FeTiO2:
Love your site… but the white on black is very hard on the sight. It is making me dizzy. I recommend recoloring the site to black letters on white… or some other more traditional look…
Just my 2 cents.
Regards,
Ken Coman
Comment by Ken C — November 4, 2008 @ 4:13 am
Site, Sight, & Black on White -got it!
Let me see what I can do…
~jesse.
Comment by admin — November 4, 2008 @ 9:14 am