Search for a chromate-free wash primer.

From: The Journal of Coatings Technology | Date: October 1, 1991| Author: Blattler, P.; Blenkinsop, G.N.; Foster, T.; Szandorowski, M. | Copyright information

INTRODUCTION

Chromate based pigments have been used for many years as anticorrosive pigments in wash primers and other alkyd and epoxy primers. In recent years, chromium, and especially chromates (hexavalent chromium), have been found to be harmful. Chromates have been found to cause irritation of the respiratory tract, produce ulcerations and perforations of the nasal septum, and produce lung cancer in workers employed in chromium manufacturing plants in West Germ...

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