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  2. Color symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Today, purple symbolizes evil and infidelity in Japan, but the same is symbolized by blue in East Asia and by yellow in France. Additionally, the sacred color of Hindu and Buddhist monks is orange. The Renaissance was also a time in which black and purple were colors of mourning.

  3. Color of chemicals - Wikipedia

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    Color of chemicals. The color of chemicals is a physical property of chemicals that in most cases comes from the excitation of electrons due to an absorption of energy performed by the chemical. What is seen by the eye is not the color absorbed, but the complementary color from the removal of the absorbed wavelengths.

  4. H&E stain - Wikipedia

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    H&E is the combination of two histological stains: hematoxylin and eosin. The hematoxylin stains cell nuclei a purplish blue, and eosin stains the extracellular matrix and cytoplasm pink, with other structures taking on different shades, hues, and combinations of these colors.

  5. 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.

  6. Complementary colors - Wikipedia

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    In this traditional scheme, a complementary color pair contains one primary color (yellow, blue or red) and a secondary color (green, purple or orange). The complement of any primary color can be made by combining the two other primary colors.

  7. Color psychology - Wikipedia

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    Purple: unnatural (contrasting with natural connotations of green, yellow, blue) Gray/Black: human structures (roads, buildings) Other colors can have intuitive meaning due to their role in Gestalt psychology and other cognitive aspects of the map-reading process.

  8. Purple - Wikipedia

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    Purple often represents "the highest," holiest, and "most sacred values" in China. In Taoism, purple is a transitional color and metaphysically between yin and yang. Purple was a popular color introduced into Japanese dress during the Heian period (794–1185).

  9. Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs - Wikipedia

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    Similar to porphyry, purple fabric was extremely difficult to make, as purple required the use of snails to make the dye. The colour itself would have caused the public to remember how they were to behave in the presence of the real emperors wearing the real fabric, with respect bordering on worship for their self-proclaimed god-kings.

  10. Biuret test - Wikipedia

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    The characteristic color of a positive biuret test. In chemistry, the Biuret test (IPA: / ˌbaɪjəˈrɛt /, / ˈbaɪjəˌrɛt / [1] ), also known as Piotrowski's test, is a chemical test used for detecting the presence of at least two peptide bonds in a molecule.

  11. Genotype - Wikipedia

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    The letters B and b represent alleles for colour and the pictures show the resultant flowers. The diagram shows the cross between two heterozygous parents where B represents the dominant allele (purple) and b represents the recessive allele (white).