Indigo
Composition and Properties of Indigo
It is an organic pigment of very dark blue colour with the following chemical formula:The pigment is not destroyed by dilute acids and alkalis and is the most lightfast of all the natural organic dyes. No incompatibilities have been reported for use in oil painting. It was employed in mixtures with yellow pigments such as orpiment or yellow ochre to produce a green color.Collection of the historical dyes of the Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Names
WoadNatural Indigo: NB 1, CI 75780Synthetic Indigo: PB 66, CI 73000From Latin indicum “indigo,” from Greek indikon “blue dye from India,” literally “Indian (substance),” neuter of indikos “Indian,” from India.From Online Etymology Dictionary
Preparation of Indigo
History of Use
The pigment had been in use since antiquity but its use in oil painting ceased at the beginning of the eighteenth century. The following graph gives the frequency of its use in the paintings of the Schack Collection in the Bavarian State Art Collections in Munich (1).Examples of use
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This is a list of episodes in Pokémon: Indigo League, the first season of the Pokémon animated series (ポケットモンスター Poketto Monsutā?, Pocket Monsters), covering the adventures of the series protagonist Ash Ketchum and his friends Pikachu, Misty, and Brock on the way to the Indigo Plateau.
Source: Pokémon/Season 1
The Indigo Girls are the American folk-rock duo of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. They got their start as part of the Athens, Georgia alternative rock scene that included The B-52's, Pylon, R.E.M., the Georgia Satellites, and Love Tractor.
Source: Indigo Girls
1 Quotes 1.1 Travis McGee series 1.1.1 The Deep Blue Good-by (1964) 1.1.2 A Purple Place for Dying (1964) 1.1.3 Nightmare in Pink (1964) 1.1.4 A Deadly Shade of Gold (1965) 1.1.5 The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (1965) 1.1.6 One Fearful Yellow Eye (1966) 1.1.7 Dress Her in Indigo (1969) 1.1.8 The Long Lavender Look (1970) 1.1.9 A Tan and Sandy Silence (1972) 1.1.10 The Scarlet Ruse (1973) 1.1.11 The Turquoise Lament (1973) 1.1.12 The Green Ripper (1979) 1.1.13 The Lonely Silver Rain (1985) 1.2 Non-series books 1.2.1 Slam The Big Door (1960) 1.2.2 The Last One Left (1967) 1.2.3 A Flash of Green
Source: John D. MacDonald
1 Quotes 1.1 Travis McGee series 1.1.1 The Deep Blue Good-by (1964) 1.1.2 A Purple Place for Dying (1964) 1.1.3 Nightmare in Pink (1964) 1.1.4 A Deadly Shade of Gold (1965) 1.1.5 The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (1965) 1.1.6 One Fearful Yellow Eye (1966) 1.1.7 Dress Her in Indigo (1969) 1.1.8 The Long Lavender Look (1970) 1.1.9 A Tan and Sandy Silence (1972) 1.1.10 The Scarlet Ruse (1973) 1.1.11 The Turquoise Lament (1973) 1.1.12 The Green Ripper (1979) 1.1.13 The Lonely Silver Rain (1985) 1.2 Non-series books 1.2.1 Slam The Big Door (1960) 1.2.2 The Last One Left (1967) 1.2.3 A Flash of Green
Source: John D. MacDonald
Dragon War (1992) by Chinese-American author Laurence Yep is the final book in his Dragon tetralogy. Exiled dragon princess Shimmer along with Indigo and Monkey attempt to rescue Thorn, whose soul is trapped within Baldy's cauldron. The cauldron is now possessed by the powerful immortal wizard known as the Boneless King, who has possessed the body of the tyrannical human king known as the Butcher and launched an all out war against the dragons with the aid of Shimmer's brother Pomfret.
Source: Dragon War
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (October 31, 1835 – August 20, 1917) was a German chemist who synthesized indigo, and was the 1905 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Source: Adolf von Baeyer
Dragon Cauldron (1991) by Chinese-American author Laurence Yep is the third book in his Dragon tetralogy. The story picks up where Dragon Steel left off. Exiled dragon princess Shimmer together with Thorn, Indigo, Civet, and Monkey attempt to get Baldy's cauldron repaired so that they can restore the Lost Sea, the waters of which Civet had used in Dragon of the Lost Sea to flood the city of River Glen.
Source: Dragon Cauldron
Indigo Girls (band; Amy Ray and Emily Saliers)
Source: List of people by name, Collaborations
Chaos was a far subtler force than most people realised. It would be so easy to sense if it threw off thunderbolts or sent barely sensed thrummings through the fabric of reality, but it was nothing more than the possible made probable. It did not break or bend any laws of nature or tip the balance of the universe. Chapter 8 “The Indigo Lord Spies on the Citizens of Makendha” (p. 64)
Source: Karen Lord
Chaos was a far subtler force than most people realised. It would be so easy to sense if it threw off thunderbolts or sent barely sensed thrummings through the fabric of reality, but it was nothing more than the possible made probable. It did not break or bend any laws of nature or tip the balance of the universe. Chapter 8 “The Indigo Lord Spies on the Citizens of Makendha” (p. 64)
Source: Karen Lord
