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  2. Liquid light show - Wikipedia

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    Liquid light show. Layers of colored mineral oil and alcohol move over the projector lens and produce changing color patterns. Liquid light shows (or psychedelic light shows) [not verified in body] are a form of light art that surfaced in the early 1960s as accompaniment to electronic music and avant-garde theatre performances. They were later ...

  3. Thermochromism - Wikipedia

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    Thermochromic inks or dyes are temperature sensitive compounds, developed in the 1970s, that temporarily change color with exposure to heat. They come in two forms, liquid crystals and leuco dyes. Leuco dyes are easier to work with and allow for a greater range of applications.

  4. Liquid3 - Wikipedia

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    Liquid3. Liquid 3 (also known as Liquid Trees) is a clean energy photobioreactor project whose purpose is to replace the function of trees in heavily polluted urban areas where planting and growing real vegatation is not viable. The project was designed by the Institute for Multidisciplinary Research at the University of Belgrade and was ...

  5. List of Crayola crayon colors - Wikipedia

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    True to Life Crayons All eight Crayola True to Life crayon colors. In 2007, Crayola released a set of eight True to Life Crayons. Each crayon is extra-long and contained within a plastic casing similar to that of Crayola Twistables crayons. In the table, the background approximates the primary color and the text is in the two supporting colors.

  6. Mysteries of Osiris - Wikipedia

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    The Mysteries of Osiris, also known as Osirism were religious festivities celebrated in ancient Egypt to commemorate the murder and regeneration of Osiris.The course of the ceremonies is attested by various written sources, but the most important document is the Ritual of the Mysteries of Osiris in the Month of Khoiak, a compilation of Middle Kingdom texts engraved during the Ptolemaic period ...

  7. Turquoise - Wikipedia

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    Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrous phosphate of copper and aluminium, with the chemical formula Cu Al 6 (PO 4) 4 8 ยท4H 2 O.It is rare and valuable in finer grades and has been prized as a gemstone for millennia due to its hue.

  8. Obsidian - Wikipedia

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    It is an igneous rock. [6] Obsidian is produced from felsic lava, rich in the lighter elements such as silicon, oxygen, aluminium, sodium, and potassium. It is commonly found within the margins of rhyolitic lava flows known as obsidian flows. These flows have a high content of silica, granting them a high viscosity.

  9. Phase transition - Wikipedia

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    In chemistry, thermodynamics, and other related fields like physics and biology, a phase transition (or phase change) is the physical process of transition between one state of a medium and another. Commonly the term is used to refer to changes among the basic states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas, and in rare cases, plasma.