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  2. Shades of green - Wikipedia

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    Pine green is a rich dark shade of cyan that resembles the color of pine trees. It is an official Crayola color (since 1903) that is this exact shade in the Crayola crayon, but in the markers, it is known as crocodile green. The color pine green is a representation of the average color of the leaves of the trees of a coniferous forest.

  3. Viridian - Wikipedia

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    Viridian. Viridian is a blue-green pigment, a hydrated chromium (III) oxide, of medium saturation and relatively dark in value. It is composed of a majority of green, followed by blue. The first recorded use of viridian as a color name in English was in the 1860s. [2] Viridian takes its name from the Latin viridis, meaning "green". [3]

  4. Handkerchief code - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The handkerchief code (also known as the hanky code, the bandana code, and flagging) [1] is a system of color-coded cloth handkerchief or bandanas for non-verbally communicating one's interests in sexual activities and fetishes. The color of the handkerchief identifies a particular activity, and the pocket it is worn in (left or right ...

  5. Color symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Color symbolism in art, literature, and anthropology refers to the use of color as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling. There is great diversity in the use of colors and their associations between cultures [1] and even within the same culture in different time periods. [2] The same color may have very different associations within ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Color in Chinese culture - Wikipedia

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    The clear blue sky and fresh green vegetables were considered shades of a single color which could even include black as its darkest hue in some contexts. Modern Standard Mandarin does make the blue-green distinction using lǜ (绿; 綠 'leafy') for green and lán (蓝; 藍 'indigo') for blue. Qīng was associated with health, prosperity, and ...

  9. Teal - Wikipedia

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    Teal green is a darker shade of teal with more green. It is a variable color averaging a dark bluish-green that is green, darker, and stronger than invisible green or pine tree. Teal green is most closely related to the Crayola crayon color Deep Space Sparkle. Deep sea green

  10. British racing green - Wikipedia

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    Very dark yellowish green. B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) British racing green, [2] or BRG, is a colour similar to Brunswick green, hunter green, forest green or moss green ( RAL 6005 ). It takes its name from the green international motor racing colour of the United Kingdom. This originated with the 1903 Gordon Bennett Cup, held in Ireland ...

  11. Color of chemicals - Wikipedia

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    The color of chemicals is a physical property of chemicals that in most cases comes from the excitation of electrons due to an absorption of energy performed by the chemical. What is seen by the eye is not the color absorbed, but the complementary color from the removal of the absorbed wavelengths. This spectral perspective was first noted in ...