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Colours made from copper

7 colours that our sources say are made from copper.

Brown Aniline A colourless oil that darkens with air and launched the first synthetic dyesPigment · 🇩🇪 Germany

#50C878 Paris Green A toxic emerald-green pigment once prized in art and used as an early insecticidePigment · 🇩🇪 Germany +4

#43B3AE Verdigris A historic bluish-green pigment formed on copper and used in art since antiquityPigment · 🇬🇷 Greece +1

Green Scheele's green A yellowish-green pigment once prized for its brilliance, now infamous for its toxicityPigment #020D15 Gunmetal A dark copper alloy once used for casting guns and now valued for its strength and finishNamed shade · 🇺🇸 United States #123524 Phthalo green A synthetic green pigment made from copper and chlorinated phthalocyaninePigment

Blue Blue A colour long prized in art, faith and dress, from ancient Egypt to modern flagsBasic colour · 🇪🇬 Egypt +5

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Paris Green: Chris goulet at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Aniline: Smokefoot, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Scheele's green: Georg Friedrich Kersting, Public domain, source
Blue: Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain, source
Verdigris: No machine-readable author provided. Nartoun assumed (based on copyrig, Public domain, source

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