Colours made from sodium
5 colours that our sources say are made from sodium.
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Tourmalineටෝරමල්ලි
A mineral group prized for its rainbow of gemstone coloursColour named from nature · 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka +5
Blue
Indigo carmine
A water-soluble blue dye made from indigo, used in food, medicine and sciencePigment · 🇺🇸 United States
Red
Ponceau 4R
A synthetic strawberry red dye used in foods outside the United StatesDye
Yellow
Quinoline Yellow WS
A greenish yellow synthetic dye used in foods, drinks, medicines and cosmeticsDye · 🇦🇺 Australia +1
Red
Amaranth
A synthetic red azo dye once used in foods and cosmeticsDye · 🇺🇸 United States +1
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Tourmaline: Aurelienreys, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Amaranth: Mrgreen71, Public domain, source
- Indigo carmine: -- メルビル ( talk ) 08:10, 28 January 2011 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ponceau 4R: Nizil Shah, CC BY-SA 4.0, source