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222 pages • first pub 2000 (view editions)
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Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Before 1856, the color in our lives -- the reds, blues, and blacks of clothing, paint, and print -- came from insects or mollusks, roots or leaves; and dyeing was painstaking and expensive. But in 1856 eighteen-year-old English chemist William Per...
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222 pages • first pub 2000 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: None
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
Before 1856, the color in our lives -- the reds, blues, and blacks of clothing, paint, and print -- came from insects or mollusks, roots or leaves; and dyeing was painstaking and expensive. But in 1856 eighteen-year-old English chemist William Per...