A New Color Has Been Discovered And Everyone Agrees: It's Gorgeous!
By Timfly
Scientists at Oregon State accidentally discovered a beautiful new color. While experimenting with new materials that “could be used in electronics applications,” chemist Subramanian and his team mixed manganese oxide with other chemicals and heated them in a furnace to nearly 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. In so doing, Subramanian created a brand new color, according to a press release by Oregon State.
The new, vividly blue pigment, as Oregon State explains, forms because manganese ions absorb red and green wavelengths of light, but only reflect blue. The team named the color “YInMn Blue” after its chemical makeup.
He was doing all kinds of experiments to try and create new materials for electronics.
So, the professor threw a bunch of chemicals in with manganese oxide, which is black, and heated them to around 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit when BAM! This beautiful new color was made!
That was back in 2009.
But now, there’s a lot of hype about the new color because it’s reportedly getting officially released later this year.
That means it’ll be available to artists and manufacturers who’ll hopefully be adding an amazing blue splash of color to all our lives.
Subramanian said in an OSU press release,
It was serendipity, actually; a happy, accidental discovery.
The basic crystal structure we’re using for these pigments was known before, but no one had ever considered using it for any commercial purpose, including pigments.
Ever since the early Egyptians developed some of the first blue pigments, the pigment industry has been struggling to address problems with safety, toxicity and durability.
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