Painting and painters' materials: a book of facts for painters and those who use or deal in paint materials (1883)
Condit, Charles L, Scheller, Jacob · New York, The Railroad gazette · leaf 261
ectrum (/. the separatedcolors) of the green coloring matter of plants, which,as we have already shown, probably exists in thepressed oil. Linseed oil is green or greenish yellowwhen fresh ; when heated it becomes red. Greenand red, therefore, stand at each end of a scale ofchange, in which yellow… … Red. Yellow. Green. Abboibed. red and green unite to make yellow. Above are theseparated colors (spectra) of leaf-green and of purewhite sunlight (daylight). Practical Conclusions. 235 The green leaf substance contains (see lighter sur-faces in the cut) much red, very much yellow andgreen, the…
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