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Blue. The Science & Secrets of Nature's Rarest Color.
The Experiment, 2022. Paperback. Pp: 215. Blue is our favorite color globally the darling of artists since the time of the pharaohs. So it`s startling to turn to the realms of nature and discover that "true" blue is truly rare. The sea and sky are blue, but we can`t bottle this trick of physics. And the few creatures, plants, and minerals that appear blue are almost all deceiving us. There`s no blue pigment in a blue jay it would be brown but for how its feathers distort light. Kai Kupferschmidt has been enraptured by blue since childhood. In Blue, he invites readers on his globe-trotting quest to understand his favorite color from Kyoto, where scientists are trying to engineer a blue rose, to Brandenburg, where conservationists hope to save the "little blue macaw." Deep underground where blue crystals grow and miles overhead where astronauts gaze at our "blue marble" planet-wherever he finds this alluring color, it has a story to tell. ISBN: 9781615199068. Cond./Kwaliteit: Ramsj.
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