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Chemistry World
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The colorful science Chemists and artists have been inspiring each other to more colorful heights for centuries. Philip Ball traces the development of paints and pigments. |
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Rediscovering the Maya Web site on the language, calendar, architecture, and culture of ancient Maya society. |
Chemistry World
September 27, 2012
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Blues standard The identification of a new inorganic blue pigment in 2009 looked promising for artists. Chemists at Oregon State University, US, found that manganese ions produce an intense blue colour, with the prized 'reddish' shade of ultramarine, when they occupy a trigonal bipyramidal site in metal oxides. |
Chemistry World
September 25, 2013 |
Coloring in the dinosaur book Chemists' best known contributions to palaeontology are probably radiocarbon dating and stable isotope analysis. But they now face a bigger challenge that has traditionally fallen into the hands of artists: adding color to the ancient world. |
Chemistry World
July 19, 2012
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Redox chemistry behind dragonfly romance Ryo Futahashi at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan, has now shown that that color change in dragonflies is down to simple reduction chemistry. |
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October 24, 2012 |
Delving deeper in the Hall of the Kings A portable and non-invasive technique to study and characterize pigments in ancient architecture has been developed by scientists in Spain. |
Chemistry World
April 3, 2007
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Historic Sunset Regained US chemists are racing against time to recreate sunsets which have disappeared from the watercolors of American painter Winslow Homer. |
Chemistry World
October 2, 2015
Paul Brack |
Refreshing Van Gogh's faded flowers Conservators at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands are working with scientists at AkzoNobel to reverse the effects of time, and reveal Van Gogh's paintings as they appeared when he first painted them. |
Chemistry World
June 26, 2014
Philip Ball |
How the Pelican got its hue Pelican books were notable for that shade of blue veering towards turquoise, which chemists will recognize instantly as a copper pigment of some kind. |
Chemistry World
July 9, 2013
Jennifer Newton |
Technicolor pKa indicator Scientists in Japan have shown that a dye can present more than five different colors according to the acidity of the solution it is in and can be used to visualize acid -- base equilibria in non-polar solvents. |
Smithsonian
July 2007
Maggie Frank |
Snapshot: Tikal Tikai National Park in Guatemala is one of the largest Mayan cities ever built, and one of Guatemala's top tourist attractions. Take a virtual slide show tour here. |
Chemistry World
August 7, 2012
Hamish Kidd |
Plant power The Chemistry of Plants -- Perfumes, Pigments and Poisons by Margareta Sequin can be enjoyed by anyone interested in organic chemistry as exemplified in the world of plants. |
Wired
February 25, 2008
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What's Inside: This Exterior Latex Paint Coats Walls, Fights Diarrhea A look inside the ingredients of latex paint. |
