3 Brand New Colors That Scientists Discovered

For millennia, we mostly had to make do with natural pigments and dyes, but in the last 300 years or so, chemical synthesis has revolutionized the colors of our world. We're conducting a survey of our viewers! If you have time, please give us feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SciShowSurvey2017 Hosted by: Stefan Chin ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Kevin Bealer, Mark Terrio-Cameron, KatieMarie Magnone, Inerri, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Fatima Iqbal, سلطان الخليفي, Nicholas Smith, Tim Curwick, Scott Satovsky Jr, Philippe von Bergen, Bella Nash, Chris Peters, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Charles George ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Prussian blue https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/prussian-blue/6101.article https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/2724251#section=Top https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/molecule-of-the-week/archive/p/prussian-blue.html https://www.fastcompany.com/1588812/long-strange-history-prussian-blue http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/HIST/bulletin_open_access/v33-2/v33-2%20p61-67.pdf http://www.webexhibits.org/pigments/indiv/overview/ultramarine.html http://camaonline.net/artist-material-prussian-blue-pigment/ https://www.britannica.com/science/color/The-perception-of-colour https://books.google.com/books?id=qsP7mmhqvj4C&pg=PA75 https://www.fda.gov/drugs/emergencypreparedness/bioterrorismanddrugpreparedness/ucm130337.htm https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235412785_Prussian_blue_as_an_antidote_against_radioactives_Thallium_and_Cesium_poisoning Mauveine https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/molecule-of-the-week/archive/m/molecule-of-the-week-mauveine.html http://www.rsc.org/Chemsoc/Activities/Perkin/2006/minisite_perkin_fashion_non_flash.html http://www.victorianweb.org/science/perkin.html http://www.pysanky.info/Chemical_Dyes/History.html http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/motm/perkin.html http://library.si.edu/exhibition/color-in-a-new-light/making http://blog.melscience.com/en/2015-02-16-british-queen-and-chemistry.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/in-ancient-rome-purple-dye-was-made-from-snails-1239931/ YInMn https://www.inc.com/betsy-mikel/science-discovered-a-new-color-so-crayola-made-it-into-a-crayon.html http://chemistry.oregonstate.edu/content/story-yinmn-blue https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/the-newest-crayola-crayon-color-comes-straight-from-the-lab/2017/05/05/f875ff3a-31d3-11e7-9dec-764dc781686f_story.html?utm_term=.60d368012ae6 http://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i26/Chemistrys-New-Black-Blue.html http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja9080666 http://www.npr.org/2016/07/16/485696248/a-chemist-accidentally-creates-a-new-blue-then-what http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2016/sep/new-colors-new-world-pigments-continue-evolve-accidental-blue-discovery http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b01639 ---------- Images: http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-3d-blue-sedans-in-a-row/494980853/popup?sq=blue%20car/f=CPIHVX/s=DynamicRank http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-birthday-cupcake/176822795/popup?sq=green%20cupcake/f=CPIHVX/s=DynamicRank http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-mobile-phone-cover/462528861/popup?sq=M|Images%20similar%20to:%20462528861|462528861/f=CPIHVX/s=DynamicRank http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-illustration-rainbows-transparent-set/486002674 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cinnabar_on_Dolomite.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermilion#/media/File:Villa_Mystery_fresco.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indigofera_tinctoria1.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IndigoDyedYarn.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_blue#/media/File:Pigment_Berliner_Blau.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine#/media/File:Dactylopius_coccus_(Barlovento)_04_ies.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarine#/media/File:Lapis-lazuli_hg.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarine#/media/File:Sassoferrato_-_Jungfrun_i_b%C3%B6n.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Blue#/media/File:Onepennyblue.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_blue#/media/File:Vincent_van_Gogh_Starry_Night.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrian_purple#/media/File:Haustellum_brandaris_000.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shroud_of_Charlemagne_manufactured_in_Constantinople_814.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historische_Farbstoffsammlung_DSC00350.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YInMn_Blue#/media/File:YInMn_Blue_-_cropped.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YInMn_Blue#/media/File:YMnO3_P63mmc_Wiki_Image.png