how would you make a pink bead

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Asked by to Rowena on 20 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
- Rowena Fletcher-Wood answered on 20 Mar 2014:
  
  Manganese is baby pink as a solid and makes dark red beads, so I guess if I wanted a pretty prink bead I would need to start by mixing manganese with some other metals. I get reddish ones with phosphorus in and phosphorus has a “red” form, so I guess I would mix manganese, phosphorus and some white metals like sodium to dilute the colours a bit. 🙂

Question: how would you make a pink bead