"J. Clarke" wrote:
>
> On 3/25/2010 1:03 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:30:01 -0500, zxcvbob wrote:
> >
> >> Sqwertz wrote:
> >>> Better link included:
> >>>
> >>> Sqwertz wrote:
> >>>> I was eating some Easter candy, reading the ingredients (bad move), and
> >>>> came across a few ingredients I've never heard of before. This was one
> >>>> of them:
> >>>
> >>> http://tinyurl.com/yzg7mrx
> >>>
> >>> Not only is it a cured polyurethane composition containing epoxy
> >>> resin, but it's also an Easter candy as well!
> >>
> >> All it is is an inert white pigment.
> >
> > Uhh, I'm pretty sure they're vegetarian!
>
> It's just refined titanium ore, in other words clean dirt. The stuff
> when ground up into a fine dust is very, very, very white.

The production process is a little more
complex than that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titaniu...ide#Production