Graphic abstract in dark blue on vellum. Prussian blue is one of the first modern synthetic pigments. It is also known as Berlin blue. Very little of this pigment is needed to obtain the strong blue colour.The pigment was discovered by the pigment maker Johann Jacob Diesbach in Berlin. The year 1704 is traditionally mentioned, but contemporary sources make it likely that Diesbach actually made the pigment by accident in 1706,[1] while experimenting with oxidising iron and a pigment called oxblood. Therefore, he expected the colour to turn red. In 1708, Johann Leonhard Frisch began producing the pigment commercially, as shown in a letter to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, since August 1709 under the name Preussisch Blau. In November 1709, he changed the name to Berlinisch Blau.
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