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  2. Rust (color) - Wikipedia

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    Rust is a red color resembling iron oxide. It is a commonly used color on cars and appears roughly the same color as photographic safelights when used over a standard tungsten light source. Rust. The first recorded use of rust as a color name in English was in 1692. [2]

  3. List of RAL colours - Wikipedia

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    Iron grey: RAL 7012: Basalt grey: RAL 7013: Brown grey or NATO olive: Austrian Armed Forces: RAL 7015: Slate grey: RAL 7016: Anthracite grey: Added for use by Wehrmacht: RAL 7021: Black grey: Added in 1937 for use by Wehrmacht under the name Dunkelgrau: RAL 7022: Umbra grey: RAL 7023: Concrete grey: RAL 7024: Graphite grey: RAL 7026: Granite ...

  4. CPK coloring - Wikipedia

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    Several of the CPK colors refer mnemonically to colors of the pure elements or notable compound. For example, hydrogen is a colorless gas, carbon as charcoal, graphite or coke is black, sulfur powder is yellow, chlorine is a greenish gas, bromine is a dark red liquid, iodine in ether is violet, amorphous phosphorus is red, rust is dark orange-red, etc.

  5. Iron oxide - Wikipedia

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    Iron oxide pigment. The brown color indicates that iron is at the oxidation state +3. Green and reddish brown stains on a limestone core sample, respectively corresponding to oxides/hydroxides of Fe 2+ and Fe 3+. Iron oxides feature as ferrous or ferric or both. They adopt octahedral or tetrahedral coordination geometry. Only a few oxides are ...

  6. Color of chemicals - Wikipedia

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    The color of chemicals is a physical property of chemicals that in most cases comes from the excitation of electrons due to an absorption of energy performed by the chemical. The study of chemical structure by means of energy absorption and release is generally referred to as spectroscopy .

  7. Iron oxide red - Wikipedia

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    Iron oxide pigments in jars: yellow, red, brown. Iron oxide red is a generic name of a ferric oxide pigment of reddish colors. Multiple shades based on both anhydrous Fe 2 O 3 and its hydrates were known to painters since prehistory. The pigments were originally obtained from natural sources, since the 20th century they are mostly synthetic.

  8. What is it the red fire retardant dropped by planes to fight ...

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    The red color of the fire retardant is caused by the chemical component iron oxide, commonly known as rust. ... According to the USDA, the iron oxide fades and loses its color "through weathering ...

  9. Glass coloring and color marking - Wikipedia

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    In borosilicate glasses rich in boron, sulfur imparts a blue color. With calcium it yields a deep yellow color. [4] Manganese can be added in small amounts to remove the green tint given by iron, or in higher concentrations to give glass an amethyst color. Manganese is one of the oldest glass additives, and purple manganese glass was used since ...