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Blue dye from red beets – chemists devise a new pigment option

  • Written by Erick Leite Bastos, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Universidade de São Paulo
Through the wonders of chemistry, molecules can be rearranged to completely transform color.Erick Leite Bastos, CC BY-SA

What’s your favorite color? If you answered blue, you’re in good company. Blue outranks all other color preferences worldwide by a large margin.

No matter how much people enjoy looking at it, blue is a difficult color...

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