Because the pigment tends to oxidize and darken on exposure to air over time, and it contains lead, a toxic, heavy metal, it was originally replaced by another pigment, cadmium yellow ( mixed with enough cadmium orange to produce a color equivalent to chrome yellow ).
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Journalist Tom Wolfe described his first impression of a teenage Adams as a tall girl, big and beautiful with dark brown hair falling down to her shoulders except that the lower two-thirds of her falling hair looks like a paint brush dipped in cadmium yellow from where she died it blond in Mexico.
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Once back in D�sseldorf he produced " To the People of New York City " ( 1976 ), a 15-part work comprising 39 aluminum panels painted in variations of cadmium red, cadmium yellow, and black the colors of the West and East German flags ( and now the German one )-ever changing in pattern.
