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  2. Pride flag - Wikipedia

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    The flag was designed as a "symbol of hope" and liberation, and an alternative to the symbolism of the pink triangle. The flag does not depict an actual rainbow. Rather, the colors of the rainbow are displayed as horizontal stripes, with red at the top and violet at the bottom. It represents the diversity of gays and lesbians around the world.

  3. Hospital emergency codes - Wikipedia

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    Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.

  4. Color constancy - Wikipedia

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    Color constancy: The colors of a hot air balloon are recognized as being the same in sun and shade. Example of the Land effect. Color constancy makes the above image appear to have red, green and blue hues, especially if it is the only light source in a dark room, even though it is composed of only light and dark shades of red and white.

  5. Byzantium (color) - Wikipedia

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    Byzantium. The color Byzantium is a particular dark tone of purple. It originates in modern times, and, despite its name, it should not be confused with Tyrian purple ( hue rendering ), the color historically used by Roman and Byzantine emperors. The latter, often also referred to as "Tyrian red", is more reddish in hue, and is in fact often ...

  6. Heliotrope (color) - Wikipedia

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    CIELCh uv ( L, C, h) (66, 102, 295°) Source. Maerz and Paul [1] ISCC–NBS descriptor. Vivid purple. B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) Heliotrope is a pink - purple tint that is a representation of the colour of the heliotrope flower . The first recorded use of heliotrope as a color name in English was in 1882.

  7. Magenta - Wikipedia

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    On the RGB color wheel, magenta is the color between rose and violet, and halfway between red and blue . This color is called magenta in X11 and fuchsia in HTML. In the RGB color model, it is created by combining equal intensities of red and blue light. The two web colors magenta and fuchsia are exactly the same color.

  8. Eye color - Wikipedia

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    Eye color. Eye color is a polygenic phenotypic trait determined by two factors: the pigmentation of the eye 's iris [1] [2] and the frequency-dependence of the scattering of light by the turbid medium in the stroma of the iris. [3] : 9. In humans, the pigmentation of the iris varies from light brown to black, depending on the concentration of ...

  9. Amethyst - Wikipedia

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    Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz. The name comes from the Koine Greek αμέθυστος amethystos from α- a-, "not" and μεθύσκω ( Ancient Greek) methysko / μεθώ metho ( Modern Greek ), "intoxicate", a reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from drunkenness. [1] Ancient Greeks wore amethyst and carved ...