Daily Archives: March 26, 2014


Vaguely Interesting Snippets | 26 March 2014 Magenta gets its name from a bloody battlefield in Italy In the mid-nineteenth century, chemists were having financial success by creating chemical compounds for new shades of colour. French chemist Francois-Emmanuel Verguin invented a reddish-purple dye and called it “fuchsine” as it evoked the color of a fuchsia in bloom. A similar colour was created by British chemists Chambers […]