Knowde Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Pigment Type
- CASE Ingredients Functions
- Technologies
Features & Benefits
- Benefits
- Opaque, ultra-thin, diffractive microflakes
- Iridescent, liquid-silver appearance in low illuminations
- Vivid, multi-rainbow colors in bright light
Applications & Uses
- Applications
- Applications
- Enhance product design, appeal, and differentiation
- Easily incorporate into paints, coating, plastic and synthetic materials
- Wide use in automotive and consumer products industries
Properties
- Color
- Pigment Base
- Appearance
- Bright rainbow prism over liquid silver color – coarse grade
- Typical Properties
- Particle Size Distribution
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Chemical Nature | MgF2-coated Al mixture | — | — |
| L^1 | 76 - 85 | — | — |
| C^1 | 0 - 2.5 | — | — |
| L^1 Standard | 80 | — | — |
| C^1 Standard | 1.2 | — | — |
| Specific surface area^3 (m^2/gram) | 0.45 | — | — |
| Dry specific gravity (H^2O=1.0 g/cm3) | 2.8 | — | — |
| Percent Solids | 100 | w/% | — |
| Specific Gravity | 2.8 | g/cc | — |
| Relative Coverge | 0.42 | m2/g | — |
| Heat Stability | max. 200 | °C | — |
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Particle Size D50^2 | 31 - 35 | Micrometre | — |
| Particle Size D50^2 | 130 | Micrometre | — |
| Particle Size D10 | 15 | Micrometre | — |
| Particle Size D50 | 33 | Micrometre | — |
| Particle Size D99 | max. 130 | Micrometre | — |