Colours made from hydrogen
10 colours that our sources say are made from hydrogen.
Brown
Aniline
A colourless oil that darkens with air and launched the first synthetic dyesPigment · 🇩🇪 Germany
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Paris Green
A toxic emerald-green pigment once prized in art and used as an early insecticidePigment · 🇩🇪 Germany +4
Green
Scheele's green
A yellowish-green pigment once prized for its brilliance, now infamous for its toxicityPigment
White
White lead
A historic opaque white pigment once made from lead and vinegarPigment
Yellow
Curcumin
The bright yellow pigment found in turmeric rootPigment
Blue
Indigo carmine
A water-soluble blue dye made from indigo, used in food, medicine and sciencePigment · 🇺🇸 United States
Orange
Canthaxanthin
A reddish-orange pigment used in food and animal feedPigment · 🇺🇸 United States +1
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
- White lead: Thester11, CC BY 3.0, source
- Curcumin: Holger M Mürk, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Indigo carmine: -- メルビル ( talk ) 08:10, 28 January 2011 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, source