A new blue pigment has been synthesized

Thanks to Amanda for alerting me about this wonderful new discovery - a stable high chroma blue has been created from manganese-containing oxide heated with white yttrium oxide and pale yellow indium oxide.

Hopefully the pigment will be produced for the fine art market in the near future.  We can use all the blues we can get!

Click here for the full article from NYTimes.com

The article was not written for artists, so it didn't say wether it is a cool or a warm blue (imagine that...), so I  am going to take this opportunity to talk about the blues we have:

-Ultramarine - a warm blue, useful for mixing violets;
-Phthalocyanine blue - (sometimes called GS for green shade) - cool, very powerful tinting strength, great for mixing greens and turquoises; when mixed with white it makes Cerulean "Hue";  There is a Phthalocynaine blue RS (red shade) that is more violet;
-Cobalt Blue - Primary blue, usually a little on the warm side;
-Prussian Blue - very similar to Phthalo - cool, sometimes turns "bronze;"
-Manganese blue - ice blue, unfortunately not available to artists anymore because the mining process is very polluting;
-Cerulean blue - a weak tinting strength light value cool blue.  Very useful for flesh tones.
- Black is a blue;
-White is a blue;

What will the new blue be?