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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World Book
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An artificial dye, mauve, was discovered by a 19th-century chemist called William Perkin while searching for a synthetic alternative to natural quinine. This book examines how the different worlds of fashion, industry, business, chemistry and medicine were transformed by a single colour.
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An artificial dye mauve was discovered by a 19th-century chemist called William Perkin while searching for a synthetic alternative to natural quinine. This book examines how the different worlds of fashion industry business chemistry and medicine were transformed by a single colour.
- 0571209173
- 9780571209170
- Simon Garfield
- 3 September 2001
- Faber and Faber
- Paperback (Book)
- 240
- New edition
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