I always thought all the colors had been discovered because we see all the colors in nature. I also didn't think so much about it before I discovered this blue. On what it was like to discover a new color You think about the bluebird or peacock or morpho butterflies, they don't have an atom of pigment in their beings or in their feathers. For example, most of the blue you see in nature, like a blue sky, has got no pigment. "There are only very few blue pigments known to mankind now. Blue is the most difficult color to make, and we found it extremely stable, so that made me really excited, and we find this to be the first new blue pigment in 200 years." Then I asked him to repeat the experiment and we could again get the blue. I thought it would be like brown or black. In the beginning, I thought he made a mistake. So the next morning I was in the lab, and he pulled the sample of the furnace, 2,300 degrees Fahrenheit, and I was shocked because all the samples came out vivid blue. One is yttrium oxide, which is white indium oxide, which is yellow and manganese oxide, which is black. "Well, I asked my graduate student to mix three components. Subramanian ( joins Here & Now's Robin Young from Oregon State University, where he made the discovery, to talk about color. So when scientist Mas Subramanian accidentally discovered a new blue - meeting all those criteria - a few years back, he was hailed as a rock star in the world of colors. The pigments need to be stable - not fading in light, or disintegrating with heat. Finding natural ones or creating them synthetically is as complicated as it is elusive.
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To reproduce color for paints, cosmetics or dyes, we need pigment. But those colors are created by the reflection of light off atoms. We see colors in nature: a blue sky, a red frog, a peacock's feathers. (Courtesy Oregon State University) This article is more than 3 years old. YInMn Blue, the first new blue to be discovered in over 200 years.