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ABOUT
THE COLOR BLUE
Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having
a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490
nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV
Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour
corresponding to an equal mixture of red and green light. On a colour
wheel based on traditional colour theory (RYB), the complementary
colour to blue is considered to be orange (based on the Munsell colour
wheel). The English language commonly uses "blue" to refer to any
colour from navy blue to cyan. The word itself is derived from the
Old French word bleu.
Etymology
and definitions
The modern English word blue comes from the Middle English, bleu or
blwe, which came from an Old French word bleu of Germanic origin (Frankish
or possibly Old High German blao, "shining"). Bleu replaced Old English
blaw. The root of these variations was the Proto-Germanic blæwaz,
which was also the root of the Old Norse word bla and the modern Icelandic
blár, and the Scandinavian word blå, but it can refer to other non
blue colours. A Scots and Scottish English word for "blue-grey" is
blae, from the Middle English bla ("dark blue," from the Old English
blæd). Ancient Greek lacked a word for blue and Homer called the colour
of the sea "wine dark", except that the word kyanos (cyan) was used
for dark blue enamel. As a curiosity, blue is thought to be cognate
with blond, blank and black through the Germanic word. Through a Proto-Indo-European
root, it is also linked with Latin flavus ("yellow"; see flavescent
and flavine), with Greek phalos (white), French blanc (white, blank)
(borrowed from Old Frankish), and with Russian, belyi ("white," see
beluga), and Welsh blawr (grey) all of which derive (according to
the American Heritage Dictionary) from the Proto-Indo-European root
*bhel- meaning "to shine, flash or burn", (more specifically the word
bhle-was, which meant light coloured, blue, blond, or yellow), whence
came the names of various bright colours, and that of colour black
from a derivation meaning "burnt" (other words derived from the root
*bhel- include bleach, bleak, blind, blink, blank, blush, blaze, flame,
fulminate, flagrant and phlegm). In the English language, blue may
refer to the feeling of sadness. "He was feeling blue". This is because
blue was related to rain, or storms, and in Greek mythology, the god
Zeus would make rain when he was sad (crying), and a storm when he
was angry. Kyanos was a name used in Ancient Greek to refer to dark
blue tile (in English it means blue-green or cyan). The phrase "feeling
blue" is linked also to a custom among many old deepwater sailing
ships. If the ship lost the captain or any of the officers during
its voyage, she would fly blue flags and have a blue band painted
along her entire hull when returning to home port. Many languages
do not have separate terms for blue and or green, instead using a
cover term for both (when the issue is discussed in linguistics, this
cover term is sometimes called grue in English).
In
science, Pigments
Traditionally, blue has been considered a primary colour in painting,
with the secondary colour orange as its complement. Blue pigments
include azurite (Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2), ultramarine (Na8-10Al6Si6O24S2-4),
cerulean blue (primarily cobalt (II) stanate: Co2SnO4), cobalt blue
(cobalt(II) aluminate: CoAl2O4), and Prussian blue (milori blue: primarily
Fe7(CN)18).
Scientific
natural standards for blue
* Emission spectrum of Cu2+
* Electronic spectrum of aqua-ions Cu(H2O)52+
Animals
a Blue Jay
* When an animal's coat is described as "blue", it usually refers
to a shade of grey that takes on a bluish tint, a diluted variant
of a pure black coat. This designation is used for a variety of animals,
including dog coats, some rat coats, cat coats, some chicken breeds,
and some horse coat colours.
Blue
in human culture
Symbolic language * In the English language, blue often represents
the human emotion of sadness, e.g. "He was feeling blue". In German,
on the other hand, to be "blue" (blau sein) is to be drunk. This derives
from the ancient use of urine (which is produced copiously by the
human body after drinking alcohol) in dyeing cloth blue with woad
or indigo
Music
* The blues is a style of music originated by African Americans.
* In 1999 Eiffel 65 released the song "Blue (Da Ba Dee)," a hugely
popular Eurodance song which peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100
in the United States, and reached #1 in 17 countries.
* Blue is the name of the original Scottish rock group * Blue is also
the name of an English pop boy band.
National
colours
Coat of Arms symbol of Israel
* Azzurro a light blue, is the national colour of Italy (from the
livery colour of the former reigning family, the House of Savoy).
* Blue is the national sports colour for India, as it denotes secularism.
* Blue is the national colour used on flags of several countries surrounded
by seas or oceans such as Australia and Europe, though not necessarily
with this interpretation in mind.
* Blue and white are the national colours of Argentina, El Salvador,
Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Micronesia, Nicaragua,
and Somalia as well as of the United Nations Organization using a
light shade of blue symbolizing peace.
* Blue and yellow are the national colours of Barbados, Kazakhstan,
Palau, Sweden, and Ukraine, and along with green, of Brazil, and along
with red, of Chad, Colombia, Ecuador, Moldova, Romania, and Venezuela.
* Blue, white and yellow are the national colours of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Kosovo and Uruguay.
* Blue and red are the national colours of Haiti and Liechtenstein,
and along with white (where it composed the French tricolour whose
simple design or colours were taken by other countries), of Australia,
Cambodia, Costa Rica, Chile, Croatia, Cuba, the Czech Republic, the
Dominican Republic, France, Iceland, North Korea, Laos, Liberia, Luxembourg,
Myanmar, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Paraguay,
Russia, Samoa, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Thailand, the United Kingdom,
and the United States. Flag of Somalia
* Blue, white and black are the national colours of Estonia.
Politics
* Blue has been associated with a variety of political positions,
often differentiated from communist red or anarchist black. During
the revolt in the Vendée against the French revolution, blues stood
for the revolutionary forces, and white for the counter-revolutionaries.
Later movements like the Breton blues used the colour to signify allegiance
to the ideals of the revolution.
* In the United Kingdom and Canada blue is the colour of the respective
Conservative Parties. In the United States, however, it has become
fashionable since the 2000 Presidential Election to refer to the Democratic
Party as "blue" and the Republican Party as "red", particularly as
in reference to "red states and blue states".
* The Blue Dog Democrats are a group of conservative Democrats in
the United States House of Representatives.
Religion
* Blue in Hinduism: Many of the gods are depicted as having blue-coloured
skin, particularly those associated with Vishnu, who is said to be
the Preserver of the world and thus intimately connected to water.
Krishna and Ram, Vishnu's avatars, are usually blue. Shiva, the Destroyer,
is also depicted in light blue tones and is called neela kantha, or
blue-throated, for having swallowed poison in an attempt to turn the
tide of a battle between the gods and demons in the gods' favour.
* Blue in Judaism: In the Torah, the Israelites were commanded to
put fringes, tzitzit, on the corners of their garments, and to weave
within these fringes a "twisted thread of blue (tekhelet)". In ancient
days, this blue thread was made from a dye extracted from a Mediterranean
snail called the hilazon. Maimonides claimed that this blue was the
colour of "the clear noonday sky"; Rashi, the colour of the evening
sky. According to several rabbinic sages, blue is the colour of God's
Glory. Staring at this colour aids in mediation, bringing us a glimpse
of the "pavement of sapphire, like the very sky for purity", which
is a likeness of the Throne of God. (The Hebrew word for glory.) Many
items in the Mishkan, the portable sanctuary in the wilderness, such
as the menorah, many of the vessels, and the Ark of the Covenant,
were covered with blue cloth when transported from place to place.
* Blue in Islam: In verse 20:102 of the Qur’an, the word zurq (plural
of azraq 'blue') is used metaphorically for evildoers whose eyes are
glazed with fear, as if the sclera is filmed over with a bluish tint.
Symbolism
* In Thailand, blue is associated with Friday on the Thai solar calendar.
Anyone may wear blue on Fridays and anyone born on a Friday may adopt
blue as their colour. The Thai language, however, is one that has
had trouble distinguishing blue from green. The default word for Blue
was recently literally, the colour of silver, a poetical reference
to the silvery sheen of the deep blue sea. It now means Navy Blue,
and the default word is now literally, the colour of the sky.
* In the early 1960s, the United States Air Force ran a television
commercial with this jingle: They took the blue from the skies And
the pretty girls' eyes And a touch of Old Glory too; And gave it to
the men who proudly wear the U. S. Air Force Blue!
Dark blue
Dark blue is a shade of blue. The name comes from the word "Dark"
(which originated from Old English dark, derk, deork; Anglo-Saxon
dearc, and Gaelic and Irish dorch, dorcha) and "Blue" (taken from
French and originated from the Indo-European root bhlewos).
