Blue - lonely, holy, hip,
irreverent blue. It was the first man-made pigment, and the last color word
developed across cultures. The color reminds us of the ocean, sky, calmness and
tranquility, one of the color mostly used by painters is now expanding! …drum
roll
A new BLUE pigment is discovered!
What?? What do you mean?? How?
Well...In 2009, as part of his lab
at Oregon State University, Subramanian - a professor of materials science -and
his students were mixing and grinding chemicals then heating them to over 2000
degree Fahrenheit to manufacture new
materials that could be used in electronics. That was when one grad student,
Andrew E. Smith, took a particular mix out of the furnace which had turned to a
surprising, bright blue color.
"You know what Louis Pasteur said?"
Subramanian asks. "Luck favors the alert mind."
Smith and Subramanian, as
it turns out, stumbled upon an undiscovered pigment of blue — the first new
blue in over 200 years.
"Color is a part of a spectrum, so you
can't discover a color," Subramanian says. "You can only discover a
material that is a particular color." That spectrum is red, orange, yellow,
green, blue, and violet — no indigo. A pigment is a material that absorbs
certain parts of the color spectrum and reflects others.
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