Smalt

Ancient · Entertainment · 1500 BCE

TL;DR

Smalt - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Glass colored with cobalt oxide is called "smalt" when ground into a pigment

What Had To Exist First

Required Knowledge

  • Blue
  • Pigments
  • Glass

Enabling Materials

  • Egyptian faience

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Smalt:

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

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