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  2. Automotive paint - Wikipedia

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    Automotive paint is paint used on automobiles for both protective and decorative purposes. [1] [2] Water-based acrylic polyurethane enamel paint is currently the most widely used paint for reasons including reducing paint's environmental impact .

  3. List of international auto racing colours - Wikipedia

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    German manufacturers like Mercedes-Benz and Audi (Auto Union) used silver paint when they returned to international racing in the 1990s. Many concept cars follow the old colour schemes, and most amateur racers prefer them as well. Often, sponsorship agreements respect traditional colours.

  4. Tuscan red - Wikipedia

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    Tuscan red. Tuscan red is a shade of red that was used on some railroad cars, particularly passenger cars . The color is most closely associated with the Pennsylvania Railroad, which used it on passenger cars and on its TrucTrain flatcars. It also was used extensively by the New South Wales Government Railways in Australia, in a similar fashion ...

  5. Car colour popularity - Wikipedia

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    The most popular car colours as of 2012 were greyscale colours, with over 70% of cars produced globally being white, black, grey or silver. Red, blue and brown/beige cars ranged between 6% and 10% each, while all other colours amounted to less than 5%.

  6. Magnolia (color) - Wikipedia

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    Magnolia is a color named after the flowering plant of the genus Magnolia. As magnolias have flowers of more than one color, mainly cream or pale purple, magnolia may refer to different colors in different countries.

  7. Shades of purple - Wikipedia

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    The pure essence of purple was approximated in pigment in the late 1960s by mixing fluorescent magenta and fluorescent blue pigments together to make fluorescent purple to use in psychedelic black light paintings. This tone of purple was very popular among hippies and was the favorite color of Jimi Hendrix. Thus it is called psychedelic purple ...

  8. Munsell color system - Wikipedia

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    The Munsell color system, showing: a circle of hues at value 5 chroma 6; the neutral values from 0 to 10; and the chromas of purple-blue (5PB) at value 5. In colorimetry, the Munsell color system is a color space that specifies colors based on three properties of color: hue (basic color), value ( lightness ), and chroma (color intensity).

  9. RAL colour standard - Wikipedia

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    RAL colour standard. RAL Colours logo. RAL is a colour management system used in Europe that is created and administered by the German RAL gGmbH [ de ] [1] (RAL non-profit LLC), which is a subsidiary of the German RAL Institute [ de ].

  10. 25-pair color code - Wikipedia

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    The 25-pair color code, originally known as even-count color code, is a color code used to identify individual conductors in twisted-pair wiring for telecommunications.

  11. Cobalt blue - Wikipedia

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    Several car manufacturers including Jeep and Bugatti have cobalt blue as paint options. Construction Because of its chemical stability in the presence of alkali, cobalt blue is used as a pigment in blue concrete .