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Veline Composite Colors


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Veline´s composite colors (such as Purple, Chartreuse) are usually mixed from four color base mixes (red, green, orange, blue). E.g. Veline Yellow is 55% by weight "green" and the rest "blue". This requires you to previously make up two compositions before you can blend them to get yellow. I sometimes found this a bit tedious and thus did some math on a rainy day to calculate the "direct" composite color formulas.

 

Veline Yellow:

 

Potassium perchlorate 41.25

Barium nitrate 13.20

Barium carbonate 8.25

Cupric oxide 6.75

Parlon 15.00

Red gum 6.80

Magnalium -200 mesh 8.75

Dextrin 4.00 (add%)

 

Veline Chartreuse:

 

Potassium perchlorate 35.00

Barium nitrate 19.20

Barium carbonate 12.00

Calcium carbonate 3.00

Parlon 15.00

Red gum 5.80

Magnalium -200 mesh 10.00

Dextrin 4.00 (add%)

 

Veline Aqua: is obtained by replacing the 3% CaCO3 in the Chartreuse formula above with 3% Cupric oxide (CuO)

 

Veline Turquoise:

 

Potassium perchlorate 43.75

Barium nitrate 10.80

Barium carbonate 6.75

Cupric oxide 8.25

Parlon 15.00

Red gum 7.20

Magnalium -200 mesh 8.25

Dextrin 4.00 (add%)

 

The following formulas do not contain Veline´s Green, the only one of Velines formulas which uses an oxidizer to achieve its specific color. All composite formulas not containing the "green" are achieved by simply modifying the composition of the 15% color producing agents in the formula, while the remaining ingredients remain constant. I marked the variable contents (italic).

 

Veline Rose

 

Potassium perchlorate 55.0

Strontium carbonate 7.5

Cupric oxide 7.5

Parlon 15.0

Red gum 9.0

Magnalium -200 mesh 6.0

Dextrin 4.0 (add%)

 

Veline Magenta

 

Potassium perchlorate 55.0

Strontium carbonate 12.0

Cupric oxide 3.0

Parlon 15.0

Red gum 9.0

Magnalium -200 mesh 6.0

Dextrin 4.0 (add%)

 

Veline Salmon

 

Potassium perchlorate 55.00

Strontium carbonate 3.75

Cupric oxide 2.25

Calcium carbonate 9.00

Parlon 15.00

Red gum 9.00

Magnalium -200 mesh 6.00

Dextrin 4.00 (add%)

 

Veline Purple

 

Potassium perchlorate 55.00

Strontium carbonate 2.25

Cupric oxide 12.00

Calcium carbonate 0.75

Parlon 15.00

Red gum 9.00

Magnalium -200 mesh 6.00

Dextrin 4.00 (add%)

 

Hope this is of use...

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very usefull for me, i found making a few comps to then mix them annoying and thought of doing this, on the plus side you have a few colours from two comps.

forgive my critisism but isnt copper oxide an oxidizer and a colouring agent aswell? i know that copper carbonate can be used in its place, and that barium carbonate can be used for the green if you dont like the toxicity of the nitrate.

 

 

dan.

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Thank you! This will go in to my library for sure. I am a fan of the Veline System.
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very usefull for me, i found making a few comps to then mix them annoying and thought of doing this, on the plus side you have a few colours from two comps.

forgive my critisism but isnt copper oxide an oxidizer and a colouring agent aswell? i know that copper carbonate can be used in its place, and that barium carbonate can be used for the green if you dont like the toxicity of the nitrate.

 

 

dan.

 

 

Yes, copper oxide can act as an oxidizer in some instances. Generally this requires a metal fuel to really be noticeable. The same of course can be said of carbonates too. I'm also not sure where you got the idea that barium carbonate is any less toxic than the nitrate. It is every bit as toxic as the nitrate, and generally a finer powder so it may be more prone to becoming airborne and contaminating other surfaces.

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thanks for helping to edit my mind :lol: , i thought it was less toxic but still toxic, i think i read it from veline's page on the system, i'll check.

i will not be making any green stars any time soon, funny how you want what you cant have.

 

dan.

 

 

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great contribution but some recipes have the wrong name and the first recipe is wrong (it should contain calcium carbonate), editing this to the proper names and correct the first recipe would make this a golden sticky in my opinion

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I don't have the veline formulas handy as I'm not a big fan of the common colors. They seem a bit washed out in my experience, though some colors like magenta are supposedly pretty good.

 

But it looks like there might be a few mistakes in those formulas. For one, yellow is a mix of green and red, not green and blue (which would make aqua).

 

I think I would try to verify any formula you are interested in, with another source to make sure they match. It can be fairly easy to mess up a formula while transcribing it to a forum.

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Here's a novel idea. Let's correct it based on the originally published literature. If anyone would be kind enough to double-check I'd appreciate it. It's from Pyrocolor Harmony, a Designer's Guide by Joel Baechle for certain.

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That's just crazy talk.

But it's good Crazy talk. If i had it, that would be my reference. Is it were, all i had was the pyroguide i printscreened, and pasted above...

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I have recently discovered that this guy is not giving us the correct numbers,

how he messed them up, I have no idea. For example why is parlon 15 when it's supposed to be 14 in every single veline recipe?

 

Here is the correct calculated recipe for turquoise, now someone should go on with the next one. I don't wanna do all this work myself hehe.

 

Potassium perchlorate 39.8
Red gum 6.8
Magnalium -200mesh 8.75
black copper oxide 6.3
Barium Nitrate 12.65
Barium carbonate 7.7
Parlon 14
Dextrin 4

 

Again, from what I can see, we have to calculate these recipes all over again, don't trust this topic. It should be completely remade!

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All my material says 15 parts, or 14.42%. All my material is sadly, of course from the INTERNET.

Anyway, the difference between 15 parts, and 15% is down to the 4 parts of dextring making the over all "104 parts".

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Veline purple:

 

53 Kclo4
9 Redgum
6 MgAl
2,1 Strontium Carbonate
0,7 Calcium Carbonate
11,2 Black copper oxide
14 Parlon
4 Dextrin

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