Editing Iron(III) oxide (section)

===Pigment===
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Iron(III) oxide is also used as a [[pigment]], under names "Pigment Brown 6", "Pigment Brown 7", and "Pigment Red 101".<ref>{{cite book |title=Paint and Surface Coatings: Theory and Practice |publisher=William Andrew Inc. |isbn=978-1-884207-73-0 |year= 1999}}</ref> Some of them, e.g., Pigment Red 101 and Pigment Brown 6, are approved by the US [[Food and Drug Administration]] (FDA) for use in cosmetics. [[Iron oxides]] are used as pigments in dental composites alongside titanium oxides.<ref>{{cite book|last=Banerjee|first=Avijit|title=Pickard's Manual of Operative Dentistry|year=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press Inc., New York|location=United States|isbn=978-0-19-957915-0|pages=89}}</ref>

Hematite is the characteristic component of the Swedish paint color [[Falu red]].