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  2. Purple - Wikipedia

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    Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light. In the RYB color model historically used in the arts, purple is a secondary color created by combining red and blue pigments. In the CMYK color model used in modern printing, purple is made by combining magenta pigment with either cyan pigment, black pigment, or both.

  3. Emergency vehicle lighting - Wikipedia

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    Green: Oversized vehicles and their pilot vehicles. Purple: Roadside breakdown vehicles. White and Green: Used by Tokyo on patrol bicycles used in urban and beach settings.

  4. Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Railways/Colours list - Wikipedia

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    green 23841f: Altrincham–Piccadilly purple 711279: Eccles–Ashton (peak only) light blue 5fc9f3: Piccadilly–Bury yellow edb600: East Didsbury–Rochdale pink ef80b1: East Didsbury–Shaw (peak only) brown 867864: The Trafford Centre–Deansgate red e20006: Manchester Airport–Victoria dark blue 1769b4

  5. UK railway signalling - Wikipedia

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    By night, it shows a red light when "on" and a green light when "off" (clear). The green light is usually produced through the use of a blue spectacle lens, which produces green when lit from behind by the yellowish flame from a paraffin lamp.

  6. Eye color - Wikipedia

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    The green color is caused by the combination of: 1) an amber or light brown pigmentation in the stroma of the iris (which has a low or moderate concentration of melanin) with: 2) a blue shade created by the Rayleigh scattering of reflected light. Green eyes contain the yellowish pigment lipochrome.

  7. Strange purple light phenomenon ‘Steve’ spotted across UK skies

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    Powerful solar storms over the weekend led to aurora borealis in the skies above the UK on Sunday alongside a strange purple light phenomenon known as Steve.. The light phenomenon, referred to as ...

  8. List of United Kingdom flags - Wikipedia

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    The Union Flag, also commonly known as the Union Jack. [6] Used as the flag of the United Kingdom. A superimposition of the flags of England and Scotland with the Saint Patrick's Saltire (representing Ireland ). National flag used by government and civilian population. A 1:2 ratio is the most common.

  9. Aurora - Wikipedia

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    blue, purple or red; blue and purple if the molecule regains an electron after it has been ionized, red if returning to ground state from an excited state. Oxygen is unusual in terms of its return to ground state: it can take 0.7 seconds to emit the 557.7 nm green light and up to two minutes for the red 630.0 nm emission.

  10. These magnificent purple and green lights aren’t auroras ...

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    Such is the case for the sweeping purple and green lights that can hover over the horizon in the Northern Hemisphere. The phenomenon looks like an aurora but is in fact something entirely ...

  11. Shades of purple - Wikipedia

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    Shades of purple. There are numerous variations of the color purple, a sampling of which is shown below. In common English usage, purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue. [1] However, the meaning of the term purple is not well defined. There is confusion about the meaning of the terms purple and violet even among ...