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Color Mixing:Colorants

By Janice VanCleave

What is a colorant? A colorant is something, especially a dye, pigment, ink, or paint, that colors  something else. For the following activity, colorant choices include, tempra paint, food coloring, and water soluble acrylic paints. What happens when colorants are mixed together? Any two or more colorants  can be mixed to form different colors. Only […]

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