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  2. Shades of blue - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 September 2024. Variety of the color blue For other uses, see Shades of Blue (disambiguation). "Shade of Blue" redirects here. For the song by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, see Shade of Blue (song). For the R&B/funk band, see Shade of Blue (band). Blue Wavelength 440–490 nm Common connotations ...

  3. Blue - Wikipedia

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    Chemical structure of indigo dye, a widely produced blue dye. Blue jeans consist of 1–3% by weight of this organic compound. Chemical structure of C.I. Acid Blue 9, a dye commonly used in candies. Blue dyes are organic compounds, both synthetic and natural. [30] Woad and true indigo were once used but since the early 1900s, all indigo is ...

  4. Green - Wikipedia

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    Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum.It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495–570 nm.In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a combination of yellow and cyan; in the RGB color model, used on television and computer screens, it is one of the additive primary colors, along with red and blue ...

  5. East Carolina Pirates football - Wikipedia

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    Each Friday is Purple and Gold Day, or Paint it Purple Fridays. Supporters of the university are encouraged to wear colors and insignias of the university the day before the game. Before each game, the Pirate Walk occurs. The football players walk from the North side of the stadium to the locker room and fans come by to show support to the team.

  6. Hummingbird - Wikipedia

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    Hummingbird songs originate from at least seven specialized nuclei in the forebrain. [ 88 ] [ 89 ] A genetic expression study showed that these nuclei enable vocal learning (ability to acquire vocalizations through imitation), a rare trait known to occur in only two other groups of birds ( parrots and songbirds ) and a few groups of mammals ...

  7. Self-healing material - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Romans used a form of lime mortar that has been found to have self-healing properties. [3] By 2014, geologist Marie Jackson and her colleagues had recreated the type of mortar used in Trajan's Market and other Roman structures such as the Pantheon and the Colosseum and studied its response to cracking. [4]

  8. Black - Wikipedia

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    The cloth had to be dyed several times to darken the color. One solution used by dyers was add to the dye some iron filings, rich in iron oxide, which gave a deeper black. Another was to first dye the fabric dark blue, and then to dye it black. A much richer and deeper black dye was eventually found made from the oak apple or "gall-nut". The ...