pigment

material that changes the color of reflected or transmitted light
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Summary

pigment ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,626 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: colourant[2]
  • Commons category: Pigments[3]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Pigments[4]
  • Earliest date: -400000-00-00T00:00:00Z[5]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[6], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[7], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[8], The New Student's Reference Work[9], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 9[10]
  • Intangible cultural heritage status: National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in France[11]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[12]

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Influence

Things named for pigment include orpiment[13], a mineral species[14].

Why It Matters

pigment has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] pigment is known by 73 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Entities named for pigment include orpiment[13], a mineral species[14].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  1. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [14] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → ['h0008393-pigmenty', '0220020-barviva']
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0220020-barviva, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → ['h0008393-pigmenty', '0220020-barviva']
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0008393-pigmenty, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Q189720
    Intangible cultural heritage status → National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in France
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → colourant
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ Yso id: 18711, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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