blue pigment

collocation in English

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blue
adjective
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/bluː/us
/bluː/
of the colour of the sky without clouds on a bright day, or a darker or lighter type ...
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pigment
noun[C or U]
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/ˈpɪɡ.mənt/us
/ˈpɪɡ.mənt/
a substance that gives something a particular colour when it is present in it or is added ...
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(Definition ofblueandpigmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Traces of colour survive, showing the use of alternating red and blue pigments, and the highlighting of plain backgrounds with red or black.
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Much azurite was mislabeled "lapis lazuli", a term applied to many blue pigments.
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Today most blue pigments and dyes are made by a chemical process.
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Lakotas associated blue pigments with women.
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The cause was found to be the result of an organometallicbluepigmentwhich caused an exothermic catalytic reaction with another additive in the foam.
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An extremely uncommon type of chromatophore, the cyanophore, produces a very vividbluepigment.
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Analysis revealed thebluepigmentused on the codex does not contain cobalt and does contain clay.
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Reproducing electric purple in pigment requires adding some white pigment and a small amount ofbluepigmentto red-violet pigment.
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It has a vividbluepigment, and is the better known of the two extant species.
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Cobalt stannate is a tin compound which is used as a ceruleanbluepigment. 80% of all lead produced goes into lead-acid batteries.
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The sulfur burns, and a finebluepigmentis obtained.
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Either through engraving or with the use of red andbluepigment, scrolls could contain any number of pictorial representations.
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Another commonbluepigmentwas smalt, which was made by grinding blue cobalt glass into a fine powder.
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Cornflowers have been used and prized historically for theirbluepigment.
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These are reflector eyes, about one millimeter in diameter, that contain no actualbluepigmentbut with a retina that is more complex than those of other bivalves.
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Furthermore, genipin can be used as a regulating agent for drug delivery, as the raw material for gardeniabluepigmentpreparation, and as the intermediate for alkaloid syntheses.
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The lintel has traces of red and blue pigments.
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These include phycobilins, which are the red and blue pigments of red and blue algae respectively, and fucoxanthol for brown algae and diatoms.
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The colours result not from any green or blue pigments but from the micro-structure of the feathers and the resulting optical phenomena.
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