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Mauve - Simon Garfield
Mauve
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00CKDALZE
Publisher: Faber & Faber Non Fiction
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction, Biography, History, Science, Art, Design, Art History, Microhistory, Chemistry
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A slim but broad-reaching tale of the beginning of artifiical dyes. At the time Perkin made his discovery that coal-tar could be transformed into mauve dye, chemistry was thought of like philosophy--a gentleman's pursuit with no worldly or industrial value. Perkin's discovery and subsequent abilit...
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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World - Simon Garfield
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World - Simon Garfield
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World - Simon Garfield
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World - Simon Garfield
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