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  2. Byzantium (color) - Wikipedia

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    Deep reddish purple. B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) The color Byzantium is a particular dark tone of purple. It originates in modern times, and, despite its name, it should not be confused with Tyrian purple ( hue rendering ), the color historically used by Roman and Byzantine emperors. The latter, often also referred to as "Tyrian red", is ...

  3. Tyrian purple - Wikipedia

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    The dye is an organic compound of bromine (i.e., an organobromine compound), a class of compounds often found in algae and in some other sea life, but much more rarely found in the biology of land animals. This dye is in contrast to the imitation purple that was commonly produced using cheaper materials than the dyes from the sea snail.

  4. Shades of purple - Wikipedia

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    Shades of purple. There are numerous variations of the color purple, a sampling of which is shown below. In common English usage, purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue. [1] However, the meaning of the term purple is not well defined. There is confusion about the meaning of the terms purple and violet even among ...

  5. Byzantine science - Wikipedia

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    The frontispiece of the Vienna Dioscurides shows a set of seven famous physicians.The most prominent man in the picture is Galen, who sits on a folding chair.. Scientific scholarship during the Byzantine Empire played an important role in the transmission of classical knowledge to the Islamic world and to Renaissance Italy, and also in the transmission of Islamic science to Renaissance Italy.

  6. Cercis siliquastrum - Wikipedia

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    Cercis siliquastrum. L. Synonyms. Siliquastrum orbicularis Moench. Cercis siliquastrum , commonly known as the Judas tree or Judas-tree, [1] is a small deciduous tree in the flowering plant family Fabaceae which is noted for its prolific display of deep pink flowers in spring. It is native to Southern Europe and Western Asia .

  7. Byzantine flags and insignia - Wikipedia

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    Tetragrammatic cross Relief with the tetragrammatic cross as imperial arms, in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum. During the Palaiologan period, the insigne of the reigning dynasty, and the closest thing to a Byzantine "national flag", according to Soloviev, was the so-called "tetragrammatic cross", a gold or silver cross with four letters beta "Β" (often interpreted as firesteels) of the ...

  8. Purple bacteria - Wikipedia

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    Purple bacteria or purple photosynthetic bacteria are Gram-negative proteobacteria that are phototrophic, capable of producing their own food via photosynthesis. They are pigmented with bacteriochlorophyll a or b , together with various carotenoids , which give them colours ranging between purple, red, brown, and orange.

  9. List of systems biology visualization software - Wikipedia

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    InCroMAP. tool for the integration of omics data and joint visualization of experimental data in pathways. multiplatform (Java-based) LGPL. [14] Pathview. pathway based data integration and visualization, easy to use and integrate into pathway analysis. multiplatform (R/Bioconductor) GPL.