Where Does Lithopone Come from?

Lithopone. Lithopone is produced by the co-precipitation and subsequent calcination of a mixture of zinc sulfide and barium sulfate. The ratio between the two components varies, for example, one type consists of a ratio of 60% zinc sulfide and 40% barium sulfate.

What is lithopone made of?

Lithopone is an insoluble mixture of barium sulfate and zinc sulfide that precipitates upon mixing solutions of barium sulfide and zinc sulfate.

What is the meaning of Lithophone?

: any of a class of percussion instruments (such as the qing) that are made of stone and whose sound is produced by striking These ancient lithophones were clearly tuned by flaking and yield two sonorous pentatonic scales.—