<Li> <P> Turmeric powder, first used as a dye, and later as a medicine and spice in South Asian cuisine . </P> </Li> <P> Turmeric powder, first used as a dye, and later as a medicine and spice in South Asian cuisine . </P> <P> Other orange pigments include: </P> <Ul> <Li> Minium and massicot are bright yellow and orange pigments made since ancient times by heating lead oxide and its variants . Minium was used in the Byzantine Empire for making the red - orange colour on illuminated manuscripts, while massicot was used by ancient Egyptian scribes and in the Middle Ages . Both were toxic, and were replaced in the beginning of the 20th century by chrome orange and cadmium orange . </Li> <Li> Cadmium orange is a synthetic pigment made cadmium sulfide . It is a by - product of mining for zinc, but also occurs rarely in nature in the mineral greenockite . It is usually made by replacing some of the sulphur with selenium, which results in an expensive but deep and lasting colour . Selenium was discovered in 1817, but the pigment was not made commercially until 1910 . </Li> <Li> Quinacridone orange is a synthetic organic pigment first identified in 1896 and manufactured in 1935 . It makes a vivid and solid orange . </Li> <Li> Diketo - pyrrolo pyrolle orange or DPP orange is a synthetic organic pigment first commercialised in 1986 . It is sold under various commercial names, such as translucent orange . It makes an extremely bright and lasting orange, and is widely used to colour plastics and fibres, as well as in paints . </Li> </Ul>

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