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This product rapidly replaced natural indigo, wiping out vast farms growing indigo. It is now the blue of blue jeans. As the pace of organic chemistry accelerated, a succession of synthetic blue dyes were discovered including Indanthrone blue, which had even greater resistance to fading during washing or in the sun, and copper phthalocyanine.
As the color that most symbolized harmony, blue was chosen as the color of the flags of the United Nations and the European Union.{2} [2] [3] [page needed] On 9 December 1955, the Committee of Ministers adopted the Emblem of the Council of Europe selecting the color heraldic azure to represent the blue sky of the Western world. [4]
YInMn Blue (/jɪnmɪn/; for the chemical symbols Y for yttrium, In for indium, and Mn for manganese), also known as Oregon Blue or Mas Blue, is an inorganic blue pigment that was discovered by Mas Subramanian and his (then) graduate student, Andrew Smith, at Oregon State University in 2009.
POMPEII, Italy — Buried and unseen for nearly 2,000 years, a sacred room has been unearthed at Pompeii with painted blue walls, a rare and expensive color in the Roman city.
Chemists at Oregon State University created the world's most flawless blue pigment and say the groundbreaking development was pretty much an accident. When the perfect color came into being, the ...
YInMn Blue is an inorganic pigment with an intense blue color that was discovered by Mas Subramanian and his graduate student, Andrew Smith, at Oregon State University in 2009. [17] [18] It has been used in water, oil, and acrylic paints from paint vendors including Derivan, [19] [20] Golden, [21] and Gamblin. [22]
Indigo dye is an organic compound with a distinctive blue color. ... The method was discovered by an accident by Karl Heumann in Zurich which involved a broken ...
In 1742, Swedish chemist Georg Brandt showed that the blue color was due to a previously unidentified metal, cobalt. The first recorded use of cobalt blue as a color name in English was in 1777. [2] It was independently discovered as an alumina-based pigment by Louis Jacques Thénard in 1802. [3] Commercial production began in France in 1807.