1、Designation: D 1544 04Standard Test Method forColor of Transparent Liquids (Gardner Color Scale)1This standard is issued under the fixed designation D 1544; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year oforiginal adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision.
2、 A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. Asuperscript epsilon (e) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.This standard has been approved for use by agencies of the Department of Defense.1. Scope1.1 This test method covers the measurement of the col
3、or oftransparent liquids by means of comparison with arbitrarilynumbered glass standards.1.2 Users of this method should have normal color vision.1.3 This standard does not purport to address all of thesafety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is theresponsibility of the user of this stan
4、dard to establish appro-priate safety and health practices and determine the applica-bility of regulatory limitations prior to use.2. Referenced Documents2.1 ASTM Standards:2D 1545 Test Method for Viscosity of Transparent Liquidsby Bubble Time MethodD 6166 Test Method for Color Naval Stores and Rela
5、tedProducts (Instrumental Determination of Gardner Color)E 308 Practice for Computing the Colors of Objects byUsing the CIE System3. Significance and Use3.1 This test method applies to drying oils, varnishes, fattyacids, polymerized fatty acids, and resin solutions. Its applica-tion to other materia
6、ls has not been tested.4. Apparatus4.1 Glass Standards, 18, numbered separately, and havingthe color characteristics given in Table 1. The color shall beproduced by the glass components only. Some glass standardsin use today do not conform to the values reported in Table 1.The calibration of glass s
7、tandards should be verified prior touse; a suitable procedure for their calibration is contained inAppendix X1.4.2 Glass Tubes, clear, 10.65 mm in inside diameter andabout 114 mm in outside length. (Viscosity tubes, as describedin Test Method D 1545, are satisfactory.)4.3 Suitable apparatus for comp
8、aring sample and standard.The apparatus may be of any design, but should have thefollowing characteristics:4.3.1 IlluminationCIE Illuminant C.4.3.2 Surrounding FieldThe field should be black.4.3.3 Field of ViewThe specimen and one or more stan-dards should subtend a visual angle of about 2 and be in
9、 thefield of view simultaneously.4.3.4 Separation of Standard and SpecimenThere shouldbe a perceptible separation between specimen and standard, butthis should be as small as is mechanically possible.5. Procedure5.1 Fill a glass tube with the material under test. If thematerial is perceptibly cloudy
10、, first filter it.1This test method is under the jurisdiction of Committee D01 on Paint andRelated Coatings, Materials, and Applications and is the direct responsibility ofSubcommittee D01.26 on Optical Properties.Current edition approved June 1, 2004. Published July 2004. Originally approvedin 1958
11、. Last previous edition approved in 1998 as D 1544 982For referenced ASTM standards, visit the ASTM website, www.astm.org, orcontact ASTM Customer Service at serviceastm.org. For Annual Book of ASTMStandards volume information, refer to the standards Document Summary page onthe ASTM website.TABLE 1
12、Color Specifications of Reference StandardsGardnerColorStandardNumberChromaticity CoordinatesALuminousTransmittanceY,%TransmittanceTolerance,6xy1 0.3177 0.3303 80 72 0.3233 0.3352 79 73 0.3329 0.3452 76 64 0.3437 0.3644 75 55 0.3558 0.3840 74 46 0.3767 0.4061 71 47 0.4044 0.4352 67 48 0.4207 0.4498
13、64 49 0.4343 0.4640 61 410 0.4503 0.4760 57 411 0.4842 0.4818 45 412 0.5077 0.4638 36 513 0.5392 0.4458 30 614 0.5646 0.4270 22 615 0.5857 0.4089 16 216 0.6047 0.3921 11 117 0.6290 0.3701 6 118 0.6477 0.3521 4 1AA duplicate standard shall have chromaticity coordinates that differ from thereference s
14、tandard by no more than one third of the difference in x or y betweenadjacent reference standards. In any one set, no two standards shall be closertogether than two thirds of the difference in x or y between correspondingreference standards.1Copyright ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, PO Bo
15、x C700, West Conshohocken, PA 19428-2959, United States.5.2 Compare with glass standards, determining which stan-dard most closely matches the specimen in brightness andsaturation. Ignore hue differences.6. Report6.1 Report the color as the number of the standard mostclosely matching the specimen. I
16、f more precise measurementsare needed, report as either matching a standard or lighter ordarker. Thus, between colors 5 and 6, the steps will be 5, 5+,6, and 6.6.2 Report any significant difference in hue between thesample and the nearest-match standard.7. Precision and Bias7.1 On the basis of a stu
17、dy in which one observer at each of80 laboratories made duplicate determinations on four samples,the “between” and “within” standard deviations were found tobe 0.5 and 0.1 color number, respectively. Based on thesestandard deviations, the following criteria should be used forjudging the acceptabilit
18、y of results at the 95 % confidencelevel.7.2 RepeatabilityTwo results obtained by a single opera-tor should be considered suspect if they differ by more than twothirds of a color number.7.3 ReproducibilityTwo results, each of the mean ofduplicate measurements, made by operators in different labo-rat
19、ories should be considered suspect if they differ by morethan four thirds of a color number.NOTE 1If desired, liquid standards matching the colors given in Table1, in glass tubes similar to the sample tubes may be used. These may befilled with potassium chloroplatinate for the light colors and solut
20、ions offerric chloride and cobalt chloride in hydrochloric acid for the darkercolors. The specifications and approximate composition of these solutionsare given in Test Method D 1544 58 T.3Many Glass Standards incurrent use do not conform to the values of Table 1.NOTE 2The precision data were obtain
21、ed using an instrument inwhich two standards are viewed simultaneously. There are other instru-ments available for color matching which would be expected to givesimilar results, but the statement above applies only to the instrumentchecked.8. Keywords8.1 glass filters; other measurements; transparen
22、t standardsAPPENDIX(Nonmandatory Information)X1. CALIBRATION OF GLASS REFERENCE STANDARDSX1.1 Select a dual beam spectrophotometer with a suffi-ciently small light beam at the sample position so that all rayswill pass through the standards to be calibrated. Alternativelyequip the spectrophotometer w
23、ith a condensing lens to accom-plish this purpose.X1.2 Place the standards in turn in the sample position ofthe spectrophotometer. If the comparator is provided with aseparate green filter in front of the light source, place this filterin the reference beam of the dual beam spectrophotometerduring c
24、alibration of each standard.X1.3 Obtain spectral transmittance data for each glassreference standard by following Practice E 308.X1.4 From the spectral transmittance data for each refer-ence standard calculate the CIE tristimulus values, X, Y, Z, andthe chromaticity coordinates, x, y, for CIE Illumi
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