Ultramarine Blue Color

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Ultramarine Blue Color - 968 #4166F5

Ultramarine is a blue pigment consisting primarily of a zeolite-based mineral containing small amounts of polysulfides. It occurs in nature as a proximate component of lapis lazuli. The pigment color code is P. Blue 29 77007. Ultramarine is the most complex of the mineral pigments, a complex sulfur-containing sodio-silicate containing a blue cubic mineral called lazurite (the major component in lapis lazuli). The first recorded use of ultramarine as a color name in English was in 1598.

Shown is synthetic ultramarine blue.
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