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  2. Indigo dye - Wikipedia

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    Indigo, space-filling. Indigo dye is a dark blue crystalline powder that sublimes at 390–392 °C (734–738 °F). It is insoluble in water, alcohol, or ether, but soluble in DMSO, chloroform, nitrobenzene, and concentrated sulfuric acid. The chemical formula of indigo is C 16 H 10 N 2 O 2 .

  3. Blue hair - Wikipedia

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    The 18th-century English politician Charles Fox was a fashionable macaroni in his youth and tinted his hair with blue powder. A group of Spanish women with blue rinsed hair. In 1913–1914, just before World War I, there was a vogue for dyed brightly-colored hair in different shades such as blue, violet or emerald. This started in Paris and ...

  4. Blue pigments - Wikipedia

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    Blue pigments are natural or synthetic materials, usually made from minerals and insoluble with water, used to make the blue colors in painting and other arts. The raw material of the earliest blue pigment was lapis lazuli from mines in Afghanistan, that was refined into the pigment ultramarine. Since the late 18th and 19th century, blue ...

  5. Red coat (military uniform) - Wikipedia

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    A scarlet tunic worn by a warrant officer of the Welsh Guards. Reenactors in the red-coated uniform of the 33rd Regiment of Foot as worn during the Napoleonic Wars between 1812 and 1816. Note the brighter scarlet of the officer on the right, as well as his crimson sash. Red coat, also referred to as redcoat or scarlet tunic, is a military ...

  6. Circassian beauty - Wikipedia

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    The concept of Circassian beauty is an ethnic stereotype of the Circassian people. A fairly extensive literary history suggests that Circassian women were thought to be unusually beautiful and attractive, spirited, smart, and elegant. Therefore, they were seen as mentally and physically desirable for men, although most Circassians traditionally ...

  7. Tyrian purple - Wikipedia

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    Tyrian purple is a pigment made from the mucus of several species of Murex snail. Production of Tyrian purple for use as a fabric dye began as early as 1200 BC by the Phoenicians, and was continued by the Greeks and Romans until 1453 AD, with the fall of Constantinople.

  8. Natural dye - Wikipedia

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    Natural dye. Naturally dyed skeins made with madder root, Colonial Williamsburg, VA. Natural dyes are dyes or colorants derived from plants, invertebrates, or minerals. The majority of natural dyes are vegetable dyes from plant sources— roots, berries, bark, leaves, and wood —and other biological sources such as fungi. [1]

  9. Blue in culture - Wikipedia

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    The expression "The wild blue yonder" in the official song of the US Air Force refers to the sky. [100] Blue is associated with cold water taps which are traditionally marked with blue. Bluestocking was an unflattering expression in the 18th century for upper-class women who cared about culture and intellectual life and disregarded fashion. It ...

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