Blue : A Scientist's Search for Nature's Rarest Colour
Author: Kupferschmidt, Kai
ISBN: 9781615197521
RM117.50
Publisher,The Experiment
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Format, Hardcover
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No. of Pages, 215
Blue is a rare colour - natural blue, that is. From morpho butterflies in the rain forest to the blue jay flitting past your window, vanishingly few living things are blue - and most that appear so are doing sleight of hand with physics or complex chemistry. Flowers modify the red pigment anthocyanin to achieve their blue hue. Even the blue sky above us is a trick of the light.
