Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by function]
6. colorant (material)
7. pigments
8. [pigment by color]
9. white pigment
10. opaque white pigment
11. lead white

Anotations

Scope note:

White lead produced by a historical method of casting metallic lead as thin buckles, which were corroded with acetic acid in the presence of carbon dioxide, using pots of vinegar, dung, and tanner’s bark. After six to fourteen weeks the blue-grey lead was corroded to white lead.