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March of the Pigments
By
Mary Virginia Orna
Mary Virginia Orna
New Rochelle, USA
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Paperback ISBN:
978-1-83916-315-9
EPUB ISBN:
978-1-83916-326-5
PDF ISBN:
978-1-83767-140-3
Product Type:
Popular Science
No. of Pages:
478
Publication date:
23 May 2022
Book Chapter
CHAPTER 14: The Forest Primeval: Arboreal Bounty1
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Published:23 May 2022
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Product Type: Popular Science
Page range:
386 - 406
Citation
March of the Pigments, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2022, pp. 386-406.
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Trees may not be at the top of your list in terms of pigments or Saturday night entertainment. But they are extraordinary creatures that engage in some wily aggressive chemistry, produce almost the entire spectrum of colorants and, incidentally, power the biogeochemical cycle. One ubiquitous forest green initiated one of the most powerful analytical tools ever developed and innocent-looking “oak apples” sourced the ink that made permanent written documents possible for almost 1000 years.
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