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  2. Atmospheric optics - Wikipedia

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    The reddish color of the Sun when it is observed through a thick atmosphere, as during a sunrise or sunset. This is because long-wavelength (red) light is scattered less than blue light. The red light reaches the observer's eye, whereas the blue light is scattered out of the line of sight. Other colours in the sky, such as glowing skies at dusk ...

  3. Color of chemicals - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, color is due to the energy absorbed by the compound, when an electron transitions from the HOMO to the LUMO. Lycopene is a classic example of a compound with extensive conjugation (11 conjugated double bonds), giving rise to an intense red color (lycopene is responsible for the color of tomatoes).

  4. Oxblood - Wikipedia

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    Small 18th-century vase with sang de boeuf glaze. Oxblood or ox-blood is a dark shade of red.It resembles burgundy, but has less purple and more dark brown hues.The French term sang-de-bœuf, or sang de bœuf, with the same meaning (but also "ox blood") is used in various contexts in English, [3] but especially in pottery, where sang de boeuf glaze in the color is a classic ceramic glaze in ...

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  6. Qualia - Wikipedia

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    The "redness" of red is a commonly used example of a quale. In philosophy of mind, qualia (/ ˈ k w ɑː l i ə, ˈ k w eɪ-/; sg.: quale /-l i /) are defined as instances of subjective, conscious experience.

  7. Lavender (color) - Wikipedia

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    Lavender is a light shade of purple or violet.It applies particularly to the color of the flower of the same name.The web color called lavender is displayed adjacent—it matches the color of the palest part of the flower; however, the more saturated color shown as floral lavender more closely matches the average color of the lavender flower as shown in the picture and is the tone of lavender ...

  8. Light - Wikipedia

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    Emission can be spontaneous, as in light-emitting diodes, gas discharge lamps (such as neon lamps and neon signs, mercury-vapor lamps, etc.) and flames (light from the hot gas itself—so, for example, sodium in a gas flame emits characteristic yellow light).

  9. Obsidian - Wikipedia

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    Obsidian talus at Obsidian Dome, California Polished snowflake obsidian, formed through the inclusion of cristobalite crystals. The Natural History by the Roman writer Pliny the Elder includes a few sentences about a volcanic glass called obsidian (lapis obsidianus), discovered in Ethiopia by Obsidius, a Roman explorer.