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  2. Royal Purple (lubricant manufacturer) - Wikipedia

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    Royal Purple is an American manufacturer which produces lubricants for automotive, industrial, marine, and racing use. It is known primarily for its line of synthetic Royal Purple Motor Oil products used in gasoline and diesel engines.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Caput mortuum (pigment) - Wikipedia

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    Caput mortuum (pigment) Ferric oxide. 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 haematite iron oxide pigment, used in oil paints and paper dyes.

  5. Violet (color) - Wikipedia

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    The colors in the group range from deep red to violet in color, and have the molecular formula C 20 H 12 N 2 O 2. They have strong resistance to sunlight and washing, and are used in oil paints, watercolors and acrylics, as well as in automobile coatings and other industrial coatings.

  6. ChromaFlair - Wikipedia

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    ChromaFlair is a pigment used in paint systems, primarily for automobiles. When the paint is applied, it changes color depending on the light source and viewing angle. It was created at Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc. (OCLI) [later JDS Uniphase and Viavi Solutions] in 1979 and is used by DuPont and PPG. [1] [2]

  7. Colour Index International - Wikipedia

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    Headquarters. United States. Area served. Worldwide. Colour Index International ( CII) is a reference database jointly maintained by the Society of Dyers and Colourists and the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists. [1] It currently contains over 27,000 individual products listed under 13,000 Colour Index Generic Names. [2]

  8. Oil paint - Wikipedia

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    Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil. The viscosity of the paint may be modified by the addition of a solvent such as turpentine or white spirit , and varnish may be added to increase the glossiness of the dried oil paint film.

  9. Fuel dye - Wikipedia

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    Fuel pumps in Ireland, with green gas oil and red kerosene, and notices that it is an offence to use marked fuels in a motor vehicle. After August 2002, all European Union countries became obliged to add about 6 mg/L (0.034 oz/bbl) of Solvent Yellow 124 , a dye with structure similar to Solvent Yellow 56 , to heating fuel.

  10. Avgas - Wikipedia

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    Avgas is less volatile, with a Reid vapor pressure range of 5.5 to 7 psi, than automotive gasoline, with a range of 8 to 14 psi. A minimum limit ensures adequate volatility for engine starting. The upper limits are related to atmospheric pressure at sea level, 14.7 psi, for motor vehicles and ambient pressure at 22,000 ft, 6.25 psi, for aircraft.

  11. Carmine (color) - Wikipedia

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    Carmine color is the general term for some deep red colors that are very slightly purplish but are generally slightly closer to red than the color crimson is. Some rubies are colored the color shown below as rich carmine. The deep dark red color shown at right as carmine is the color of the raw unprocessed pigment, but lighter, richer, or ...