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  2. Potassium permanganate - Wikipedia

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    The purplish-black color of solid potassium permanganate, and the intensely pink to purple color of its solutions, is caused by its permanganate anion, which gets its color from a strong charge-transfer absorption band caused by excitation of electrons from oxo ligand orbitals to empty orbitals of the manganese(VII) center.

  3. M&M's - Wikipedia

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    In 1995, the company ran the M&M's Color Campaign, a contest in which participants were given the choice of selecting purple, blue, or pink as the color of a new variety of M&M's. The announcement of the winning color (blue) was carried on most of the television networks' news programs, as well as the talk shows of David Letterman and Jay Leno ...

  4. List of Oreo varieties - Wikipedia

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    After being discontinued in the late 1990s they were re-released in 2000 along with the redesigned 2001 Dodge Caravan as part of a promotional tie-in with DaimlerChrysler (now Mercedes-Benz Group and Stellantis). [5] Their 1990s packaging consisted of a "miniaturized" version of the full-size cardboard tray and box used in packaging at the time.

  5. Plymouth Prowler - Wikipedia

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    Purple Metallic Black Bright Silver Metallic Yellow Orange pearl coat. The Plymouth Prowler was produced for 1997 and then for the 1999 and 2000 model years. After the Plymouth brand was discontinued in 2001, the Prowler was marketed as a Chrysler Prowler for the 2001 and 2002 model years. However, DaimlerChrysler continued to market the ...

  6. ColorChecker - Wikipedia

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    The ColorChecker Classic chart is a rectangular card measuring about 11 by 8.25 inches (27.9 by 21.0 cm), or in its original incarnation about 13 by 9 inches (33 by 23 cm), an aspect ratio approximately the same as that of 35 mm film. [5]

  7. List of Mountain Dew flavors and varieties - Wikipedia

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    Name Dates of production Notes Picture Mountain Dew 1940–present A citrus-flavored soda developed in the 1940s by Barney and Ally Hartman, beverage bottlers in Tennessee. A revised formula was created by Bill Bridgforth in 1959.

  8. History of Crayola crayons - Wikipedia

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    Over time, simpler names were favored, and several colors were discontinued by 1910, including Light and Dark Venetian Red, Permanent Geranium Lake, Celestial Blue, Raw Sienna, and Charcoal Gray; the use of "Purple" as an alternative for "Violet" ended about 1914; and after 1915 Gold, Silver, and Copper were no longer available in assortments ...

  9. Visible spectrum - Wikipedia

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    Young was the first to measure the wavelengths of different colors of light, in 1802. [16] The connection between the visible spectrum and color vision was explored by Thomas Young and Hermann von Helmholtz in the early 19th century. Their theory of color vision correctly proposed that the eye uses three distinct receptors to perceive color.