YInMn Blue (/jɪnmɪn/; for the chemical symbols Y for yttrium, In for indium, and Mn for manganese), also known as Oregon Blue or Mas Blue, is an inorganic blue pigment that was discovered by Mas Subramanian and his (then) graduate student, Andrew Smith, at Oregon State University in 2009.
The chemists mixed a black colour (manganese oxide) with other chemicals and put them in a nearly-2000 degree Fahrenheit furnace; one of the sample results came out as a vivid blue. “It was serendipity, actually; a happy, accidental discovery,” Subramanian said in a statement. The new YInMn Blue. The new YInMn Blue.
Blue is one of the rarest of colors in nature. Even the few animals and plants that appear blue don't actually contain the color. These vibrant blue organisms have developed some unique features that use the physics of light.
YInMn = Brilliant Blue
Commercially known as Blue 513, YInMn Blue pigments are now available for use in industrial coatings, plastics, and artist color materials.
What if we told you that wasn't always the case? It turns out the color blue is a relatively new concept. Scientifically speaking, it has always existed as part of the visible light spectrum [rainbow], but studies of ancient texts have shown that humans didn't really “see” blue until modern times!
Therefore, there are no new colors waiting to be discovered for us to perceive in the future. Of course, the above only applies to colors perceived through the perception of light through our visual system. We can also perceive colors through non-visual means such as hallucinations, dreams, and our imagination.
We see our world in a huge variety of colour. However, there are other “colours” that our eyes can't see, beyond red and violet, they are: infrared and ultraviolet. Comparing these pictures, taken in these three “types of light”, the rainbow appears to extend far beyond the visible light.
Researchers discovered the ancient pink pigments in 1.1-billion-year-old rocks deep beneath the Sahara Desert in the Taoudeni Basin of Mauritania, West Africa, making them the oldest colors in the geological record.
Scientists discover world's oldest biological color, which reveals more about early life on Earth. By crushing 1.1 billion-year-old rocks found beneath the Sahara Desert, scientists say they have discovered the world's oldest color: bright pink.
It has been determined by people who determine such things that there are somewhere around 18 decillion varieties of colors available for your viewing enjoyment. That's an 18 followed by 33 zeros.
Legendary is a soft, gray, millennial beige with a silvery undertone. It is a perfect paint color for a living room or exterior home.
Xanadu is a green color that carries a light gray undertone. It gets its name from the Philodendron plant that carries the same hue as the Xanadu paint color.
Magenta doesn't exist because it has no wavelength; there's no place for it on the spectrum. The only reason we see it is because our brain doesn't like having green (magenta's complement) between purple and red, so it substitutes a new thing.
The Pantone Color Institute named Viva Magenta as its official color of the year for 2023 for its joyous yet powerful nature.
Oregon State University chemist Mas Subramanian and his team accidentally discovered YInMn blue while experimenting with new materials for electronics. The color is named after its chemical makeup: Yttrium, Indium, and Manganese.
Then I asked him to repeat the experiment and we could again get the blue. Blue is the most difficult color to make, and we found it extremely stable, so that made me really excited, and we find this to be the first new blue pigment in 200 years."
Turns out blue is the youngest color.
Three Primary Colors (Ps): Red, Yellow, Blue. Three Secondary Colors (S'): Orange, Green, Violet. Six Tertiary Colors (Ts): Red-Orange, Yellow-Orange, Yellow-Green, Blue-Green, Blue-Violet, Red-Violet, which are formed by mixing a primary with a secondary.
Early Earth Was Purple, Study Suggests. The earliest life on Earth might have been just as purple as it is green today, a scientist claims. Ancient microbes might have used a molecule other than chlorophyll to harness the Sun's rays, one that gave the organisms a violet hue.
If you assume that prehistoric oceans were blue just like they are today, you'd be wrong. Scientists discovered ancient oceans were actually a rosy hue, making pink the world's oldest-known color. Researchers found the mighty little pink pigment in bacterial fossils from the Sahara Desert in Mauritania, West Africa.
Pink is one of the most common colors of flowers; it serves to attract the insects and birds necessary for pollination and perhaps also to deter predators. The color comes from natural pigments called anthocyanins, which also provide the pink in raspberries.
Human eyes have three types of cones that can identify combinations of red, blue, and green. Dogs possess only two types of cones and can only discern blue and yellow - this limited color perception is called dichromatic vision.
In scientific observations, cats do not appear to perceive the full range of colors that humans can. Some scientists believe that cats see only blue and gray, while others think they see also see yellow like their canine counterparts.
As we mentioned above, the human eye has three types of cones that allow us to see a certain range of light and, therefore, colour, on the electromagnetic spectrum – i.e. the visible light spectrum. These colours are blue, green, and red. But obviously, we see much more than just these three colours.