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2. Caput mortuum (pigment) - Wikipedia

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   Caput mortuum (Latin for 'dead head', and variously spelled caput mortum or caput mortem), also known as cardinal purple, is the name given to a purple variety of hematite iron oxide pigment, used in oil paints and paper dyes. Due to the cultural significance of its deep purple colour, it was very popular for painting the robes of religious ...

3. Mummy brown - Wikipedia

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   Mummy brown, also known as Egyptian brown or Caput Mortuum, [1]: 254 [2] was a rich brown bituminous pigment with good transparency, sitting between burnt umber and raw umber in tint. [3] The pigment was made from the flesh of mummies mixed with white pitch and myrrh.

4. Caput mortuum - Wikipedia

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   Caput mortuum (plural capita mortua; literally "dead head") is a Latin term used in alchemy to signify a useless substance left over from a chemical operation such as sublimation and the epitome of decline and decay (alternatively called nigredo).

5. Talk:Caput mortuum - Wikipedia

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6. List of Latin phrases (C) - Wikipedia

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   caput inter nubila (condit) (she plunges) [her] head in the clouds: So aggrandized as to be beyond practical (earthly) reach or understanding (from Virgil's Aeneid and the shorter form appears in John Locke's Two Treatises of Government) caput mortuum: dead head

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8. Red-violet - Wikipedia

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   Red-violet refers to a rich color of high medium saturation about 3/4 of the way between red and magenta, closer to magenta than to red. [1] In American English, this color term is sometimes used in color theory as one of the purple colors—a non- spectral color between red and violet that is a deep version of a color on the line of purples on ...

9. Shades of violet - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 January 2025. Varieties of the color violet Violet Spectral coordinates Wavelength 380–450 nm Frequency 800–715 THz Color coordinates Hex triplet #8000FF sRGB B (r, g, b) (128, 0, 255) HSV (h, s, v) (270°, 100%, 100%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (41, 134, 275°) Source W3C B: Normalized to [0–255 ...