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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 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]

  4. Complementary colors - Wikipedia

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    In the traditional RYB color model, the complementary color pairs are red – green, yellow – purple, and blue – orange. Opponent process theory suggests that the most contrasting color pairs are red–green and blue–yellow. The black - white color pair is common to all the above theories.

  5. Color in Chinese culture - Wikipedia

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    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 harmony. It was used for the roof tiles and ornate interior of the Temple of Heaven and in other structures to represent Heaven.

  6. 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.

  7. Color of chemicals - Wikipedia

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    Purple Titanium(IV) Ti 4+ Silver Titanyl: TiO 2+ Colorless Vanadium(II) V 2+ Light purple Vanadium(III) V 3+ Dark grey-green Vanadyl(IV) VO 2+ Blue Vanadium(IV) V 4 O 2− 9 Brown Vanadium(V) VO + 2 Yellow Metavanadate: VO − 3: Colorless Orthovanadate: VO 3− 4: Colorless Chromium(II) Cr 2+ Bright blue Chromium(III) Cr 3+ Blue-green-grey

  8. 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 ...

  9. Impossible color - Wikipedia

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    Impossible color. The human eye's red-to-green and blue-to-yellow values of each one-wavelength visible color [citation needed] Human color sensation is defined by the sensitivity curves (shown here normalized) of the three kinds of cone cells: respectively the short-, medium- and long-wavelength types. Impossible colors are colors that do not ...

  10. H&E stain - Wikipedia

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    Hematoxylin and eosin stain ( or haematoxylin and eosin stain or hematoxylin-eosin stain; often abbreviated as H&E stain or HE stain) is one of the principal tissue stains used in histology. [1] [2] [3] It is the most widely used stain in medical diagnosis [1] and is often the gold standard. [4] For example, when a pathologist looks at a biopsy ...

  11. Subtractive color - Wikipedia

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    Subtractive color or subtractive color mixing predicts the spectral power distribution of light after it passes through successive layers of partially absorbing media. This idealized model is the essential principle of how dyes and pigments are used in color printing and photography, where the perception of color is elicited after white light ...