No matter how much people enjoy looking at it, blue is a difficult color to harness from nature. As a chemist who studies the modification of natural products to solve technological problems, I ...

It conjures calm. But it’s not easy being blue. It’s not the easiest color to make, either. You can make a nice blue by mixing certain minerals with elements like mercury or lead. But they are ...

Blue No. 1 is called "brilliant blue" and, as is typical of modern dyes, was originally derived from coal tar, although most manufacturers now make it from an oil base.

BBG, a known P2X7R antagonist, is both structurally and functionally equivalent to the commonly used FD&C blue dye #1. More than 1 million pounds of this dye, approved by the Food and Drug ...

Vazquez adds that although Maya blue was identified as a new dye in 1931, it took scientists a long time to understand the formula, and studies are continuing.