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  2. Chartreuse (color) - Wikipedia

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    Chartreuse ( US: / ʃɑːrˈtruːz, - ˈtruːs / ⓘ, UK: /- ˈtrɜːz /, [1] French: [ʃaʁtʁøz] ⓘ ), also known as yellow-green or greenish yellow, is a color between yellow and green. [2] It was named because of its resemblance to the French liqueur green chartreuse, introduced in 1764. Similarly, chartreuse yellow is a yellow color ...

  3. Jaundice - Wikipedia

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    Jaundice, also known as icterus, is a yellowish or greenish pigmentation of the skin and sclera due to high bilirubin levels. [3] [6] Jaundice in adults is typically a sign indicating the presence of underlying diseases involving abnormal heme metabolism, liver dysfunction, or biliary-tract obstruction. [7]

  4. Color terminology for race - Wikipedia

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    The color adjectives used in 1779 are weiss "white" ( Caucasian race ), gelbbraun "yellow-brown" ( Mongolian race ), schwarz "black" ( Aethiopian race ), kupferrot "copper-red" ( American race) and schwarzbraun "black-brown" ( Malayan race ). [11] Blumenbach belonged to a group known as the Göttingen school of history, which helped to ...

  5. Sunset yellow FCF - Wikipedia

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    Sunset yellow FCF (also known as orange yellow S, or C.I. 15985) is a petroleum -derived orange azo dye with a pH dependent maximum absorption at about 480 nm at pH 1 and 443 nm at pH 13 with a shoulder at 500 nm. [1] [2] : 463 When added to foods sold in the United States it is known as FD&C Yellow 6; when sold in Europe, it is denoted by E ...

  6. Hue - Wikipedia

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    In color theory, hue is one of the main properties (called color appearance parameters) of a color, defined technically in the CIECAM02 model as "the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet ," [1] within certain theories of color vision .

  7. Arylide yellow - Wikipedia

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    Arylide yellow. Arylide yellow, also known as Hansa yellow and monoazo yellow, is a family of organic compounds used as pigments. They are primarily used as industrial colorants including plastics, building paints and inks. They are also used in artistic oil paints, acrylics and watercolors. These pigments are usually semi-transparent and range ...

  8. Olympic symbols - Wikipedia

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    Rings. The five-ringed symbol of the Olympic Games. The first five-ringed symbol of the Olympic Games used between 1913 and 1986. The second five-ringed symbol of the Olympic Games used between 1986 and 2010. There are five interlocking rings, coloured blue, yellow, black, green, and red on a white field.

  9. Flag of Germany - Wikipedia

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    The national flag of Germany is a tricolour consisting of three equal horizontal bands displaying the national colours of Germany: black, red, and gold ( German: Schwarz-Rot-Gold ). [1] The flag was first sighted in 1848 in the German Confederation. The flag was also used by the German Empire from 1848 to 1849.