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  2. Why Red and Green Became the Shades of the Holiday Season

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    Traditional red and green ornaments on a Christmas tree. ... And so the fact that all these things came together—this friendly, fat Santa in these bright red robes, which, I don't think is a ...

  3. Pyrotechnic colorant - Wikipedia

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    Red Strontium sulfate: SrSO 4: Common. High-temperature oxidizer. Used in strobe mixtures and some metal-based red compositions. Red Strontium chloride: SrCl 2: Common. Produces bright red flame. Orange Calcium carbonate: CaCO 3: Produces orange flame. Yields carbon dioxide on decomposition. Often used in toy fireworks as a substitute for ...

  4. Color of chemicals - Wikipedia

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    red Sodium: Na yellow/orange Magnesium: Mg brilliant white Potassium: K lilac/violet Calcium: Ca brick red Rubidium: Rb red-violet Strontium: Sr red Caesium: Cs light blue Barium: Ba green/yellow Copper: Cu Blue/Green(Often with white flashes) Lead: Pb Grey/White

  5. Vermilion - Wikipedia

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    The name originated because it had a similar color to the natural red dye made from an insect, Kermes vermilio, which was widely used in Europe. [2] [3] The first recorded use of "vermilion" as a color name in English was in 1289. [4] [5] The term cinnabar is used in mineralogy and crystallography for the red crystalline form of mercury sulfide ...

  6. Red pigments - Wikipedia

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    The brilliant opaque red of vermillion, for example, results because vermillion reflects the major part of red light, but absorbs the blue, green and yellow parts of white light. [1] Red pigments historically were often made from iron oxides, such as hematite. These pigments have been found in cave paintings in France dating to between 16,000 ...

  7. I Tried 6 Tic Tac Flavors, and Only 2 of Them Will Freshen ...

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    Orange is included here, which is great, and the red and green flavors are bright and tropical. Yellow is weird as hell individually, but slips into the background a little more when you taste ...

  8. List of colors by shade - Wikipedia

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    Magenta is variously defined as a purplish-red, reddish-purple, or a mauvish–crimson color. On color wheels of the RGB and CMY color models, it is located midway between red and blue, opposite green. Complements of magenta are evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 500–530 nm.

  9. Chartreuse (color) - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, chartreuse yellow is a yellow color mixed with a small amount of green, named after the drink yellow chartreuse. [ 3 ] During the 2000s, yellow-green, as well as other shades of bright green like lime green , became very popular when various tech companies used it in office decor and other products, and with the popularity and ...