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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 in Chinese culture - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, the standard colors in Chinese culture are black, red, cyan ( 青; qīng ), white, and yellow. Respectively, these correspond to water, fire, wood, metal, and earth, which comprise the 'five elements' ( wuxing) of traditional Chinese metaphysics. Throughout the Shang, Tang, Zhou and Qin dynasties, China's emperors used the Theory ...

  4. Urine test strip - Wikipedia

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    A urine test strip or dipstick is a basic diagnostic tool used to determine pathological changes in a patient's urine in standard urinalysis. [1] A standard urine test strip may comprise up to 10 different chemical pads or reagents which react (change color) when immersed in, and then removed from, a urine sample.

  5. List of plants with symbolism - Wikipedia

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    purple: Grief and sorrow; Please forgive me: red or pink: Playfulness, sport: white: Unobtrusive loveliness: yellow: Jealousy: Hydrangea: general: In a negative sense frigidity, heartlessness; Thank you for understanding; boastfulness: pink: Heartfelt emotion or gratitude purple: A desire to deeply understand someone blue

  6. Color psychology - Wikipedia

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    Color psychology is the study of hues as a determinant of human behavior. Color influences perceptions that are not obvious, such as the taste of food. Colors have qualities that can cause certain emotions in people. [1] How color influences individuals may differ depending on age, gender, and culture. [2]

  7. Serpent symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Serpent symbolism. The serpent, or snake, is one of the oldest and most widespread mythological symbols. The word is derived from Latin serpens, a crawling animal or snake. Snakes have been associated with some of the oldest rituals known to humankind [1] [2] and represent dual expression [3] of good and evil. [4]

  8. Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates: 45°26′03″N 12°20′23″E. Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs. Missing heel portion kept in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum. The Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs is a porphyry sculpture group of four Roman emperors dating from around 300 AD. The sculptural group has been fixed to a corner of the façade of St Mark's Basilica in ...

  9. 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.

  10. Gram stain - Wikipedia

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    Purple-stained gram-positive (left) and pink-stained gram-negative (right) Gram-positive bacteria have a thick mesh-like cell wall made of peptidoglycan (50–90% of cell envelope), and as a result are stained purple by crystal violet, whereas gram-negative bacteria have a thinner layer (10% of cell envelope), so do not retain the purple stain ...

  11. Normal mapping - Wikipedia

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    Normal mapping used to re-detail simplified meshes. This normal map is encoded in object space. In 3D computer graphics, normal mapping, or Dot3 bump mapping, is a texture mapping technique used for faking the lighting of bumps and dents – an implementation of bump mapping.