It's blue, by golly.
Posted on 11/27/2009 10:40:14 PM PST by neverdem
Blue is sometimes not an easy color to make.
Blue pigments of the past have often been expensive (ultramarine blue was made from the gemstone lapis lazuli, ground up), poisonous (cobalt blue is a possible carcinogen and Prussian blue, another well-known pigment, can leach cyanide) or apt to fade (many of the organic ones fall apart when exposed to acid or heat).
So it was a pleasant surprise to chemists at Oregon State University when they created a new, durable and brilliantly blue pigment by accident.
The researchers were trying to make compounds with novel electronic properties, mixing manganese oxide, which is black, with other chemicals and heating them to high temperatures.
Then Mas Subramanian, a professor of material sciences, noticed that one of the samples that a graduate student had just taken out of the furnace was blue.
“I was shocked, actually,” Dr. Subramanian said...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Cool. Always been a fan of making my own oil paints with dry colors and good oil. I wonder how this will hold up to time
It's blue, by golly.
cool... my ‘01 Bullitt Mustang GT’s color is True Blue... I wonder if I need to trade up now :-)
Sacre’ Bleu!
Not sure why I thought of this, but U. of Washington used to have a basketball player named Thalo Green. Kind of close to Oregon State.
Yes, his mother was an artist.
A woman in line at a supermarket once said, "Pardon me, I'm, not trying to be forward, but you have the bluest eyes that I have ever seen," I replied, "Thank you, but yes, I know." Blue runs in my veins. God reached deep to give us such a wonderfull color.
I liked the old blue better. What was wrong with the old blue?
Blue, Blue
Electric Blue
(snip)
Pale blinds drawn all day
Nothing to do, nothing to say
Blue, blue
(Must be FR poster’s block.)
Had the germans done this a hundred years ago it would hardly be a blip on the news radar.
Thanks, bfl.
Cheers!
Sorry you didn’t hear about Old Blue, I laid him down out back some while ago, on his side, his good paw wrapped round the VW axle and the battery cable welded to his cast iron collar.
A tree’s done grown up through the floorpan and’s comin’ out the sunroof but the county come by and said that there’s an eyesore.
The fact that this discovery was made at such an elementary level of chemistry is perhaps why it is so newsworthy today. It went overlooked for such a long time; nobody in the dye biz knew about it.
alas, ol’ blue.
Come on Bluuuuuuue, you good dog, too.
Little boy Blue...
If a boy had a chance, a chance with someone like you
Are you gonna break his heart, let him cry for the moon
Are you hiding somewhere behind those eyes?
I just freeze every time you see through me
And it’s all over you, electric blue.
On my knees, help me baby,
Tell me, what can I do, electric blue.
Oh I had a dream, For a moment I believed it was true
Oh I’d have given anything just to be there with you
Are you hiding somewhere behind those eyes?
I just freeze every time you see through me
And it’s all over you, electric blue.
In too deep, standing here waiting
As I’m breaking in two, electric blue.
I can see, can see that it may be
Just a vision of you, electric blue.
On my knees, help me baby,
tell me what can I do, electric blue.
(help me baby)
Are you hiding somewhere behind those eyes?
I just freeze every time you see through me
And it’s all over you, electric blue.
In too deep, standing here waiting
As I’m breaking in two, electric blue.
I can see, can see that it may be
Just a vision of you, electric blue.
On my knees, help me baby,
Tell me, what can I do, electric blue.
I just freeze every time you see through me
And it’s all over you, electric blue.
In too deep, standing here waiting
As I’m breaking into, electric blue.
I can see, can see that it may be
Just a vision of you, electric blue.
On my knees, help me baby,
Tell me, what can I do, electric blue.
Electric blue
Electric blue
Electric blue
It’s eighty miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark out, and we’re wearing sunglasses. Hit it!
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