It is also a precursor to the pigment lithopone.

Lithopone was needed in Germany during the Second World War both for civil applications and for camouflage paints.

Zinc white is used as a pigment in paints and is more opaque than lithopone, but less opaque than titanium dioxide.

The combination of barium sulfate and zinc sulfide (ZnS) is the inorganic pigment called lithopone.

Production of Lithopone grew significantly up to the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, while new technologies helped to greatly expand the range of products.

BaS is an important precursor to other barium compounds including BaCO and the pigment lithopone, ZnS/BaSO.

Krebs Pigments and Chemical Company was founded in 1902 by Henrik J. Krebs and was a manufacturer of lithopone and titanium dioxide.

Henrik Johannes Krebs (June 27, 1847 - October 7, 1929), sometimes called Henry J. Krebs, was an immigrant from Denmark who started the Krebs Pigments and Chemical Company to manufacture the pigment lithopone.