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Ochre facts for kids
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Ochre or Ocher is a golden-yellow or light yellowish brown colour. The word is from the Greek ochros, meaning "yellow". Ochre is natural earth pigment containing hydrated iron oxide.
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Ochre- pigment
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Yellow ochre (Goldochre)- pigment
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Multicolored ochre rocks used in Aboriginal ceremony and artwork. Ochre Pits, Namatjira Drive, Northern Territory
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Himba woman covered with a traditional ochre pigment
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Limonite, a mineraloid containing iron hydroxide, is the main ingredient of all the ochre pigments.
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Hematite is a more reddish variety of iron oxide, and is the main ingredient of red ochre. When limonite is roasted, it turns partially to the more reddish hematite and becomes red ochre or burnt sienna.
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The clay hills of Roussillon, Vaucluse, in Provence have been an important source of ochre pigment since the 18th century.
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Yellow and red ochre along the Path of Ochres in Roussillon.
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A keg of ochre pigment at the ochre mines in Roussillon.
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Red ochre underground mining. Province of Jaén, Spain.
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three different ochre- pigments
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Image of a horse colored with yellow ochre (17,300 BC) from Lascaux cave, France.
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Image of a human hand created with red ochre in Pech Merle cave, France (Gravettian era, 25,000 BC).
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Image of a bison from the cave of Altamira in Spain, painted with red ochre between 16,500 and 15,000 BC.