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  2. Spectral color - Wikipedia

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    A rainbow is a decomposition of white light into all of the spectral colors. Laser beams are monochromatic light, thereby exhibiting spectral colors. A spectral color is a color that is evoked by monochromatic light, i.e. either a spectral line with a single wavelength or frequency of light in the visible spectrum, or a relatively narrow spectral band (e.g. lasers).

  3. Yam (vegetable) - Wikipedia

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    In Okinawa, purple yams (Dioscorea alata) are grown. This purple yam is popular as lightly deep-fried tempura, as well as being grilled or boiled. Additionally, the purple yam is a common ingredient of yam ice cream with the signature purple color. Purple yam is also used in other types of traditional wagashi sweets, cakes, and candy. [citation ...

  4. Shades of yellow - Wikipedia

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    The color royal yellow is a representation of the color of the robes worn by the Emperor of China. The first recorded use of royal yellow as a color name in English was in 1548. Other names for this color are Chinese yellow and imperial yellow. [8]

  5. Color of chemicals - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, color is due to the energy absorbed by the compound, when an electron transitions from the HOMO to the LUMO. Lycopene is a classic example of a compound with extensive conjugation (11 conjugated double bonds), giving rise to an intense red color (lycopene is responsible for the color of tomatoes).

  6. Color blindness - Wikipedia

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    Some denotative tasks can be converted to comparative tasks by depicting the actual color whenever the color name is mentioned; for example, colored typography in "purple", purple or "purple ( )". For denotative tasks ( color naming ), using the most common shades of colors.

  7. List of colors: G–M - Wikipedia

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    Colors are an important part of visual arts, fashion, interior design, and many other fields and disciplines.. The following is a list of colors.A number of the color swatches below are taken from domain-specific naming schemes such as X11 or HTML4.

  8. Potassium permanganate - Wikipedia

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    The purplish-black color of solid potassium permanganate, and the intensely pink to purple color of its solutions, is caused by its permanganate anion, which gets its color from a strong charge-transfer absorption band caused by excitation of electrons from oxo ligand orbitals to empty orbitals of the manganese(VII) center.

  9. Periwinkle (color) - Wikipedia

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    Its name is derived from the lesser periwinkle or myrtle herb (Vinca minor) which bears flowers of the same color. The color periwinkle is also called lavender blue and light blue violet . [ 2 ] The color periwinkle may be considered a pale tint of purple-blue in the Munsell color system , or a " pastel purple-blue".