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Umber

A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below.

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Relating to color, or to colors.

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Relating to color, or to colors.

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Brown 76% connected

Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.

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The quality or state of being brown.

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Chocolate 92% connected

A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.

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Coffee 92% connected

The "beans" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and…

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a 3-dimensional geometric arrangement of the atoms or molecules or ions composing a crystal

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a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated

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a 3-dimensional geometric arrangement of the atoms or molecules or ions composing a crystal

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a substance (an atom or molecule or radical or ion) that forms a complex around a central atom

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the degree of oxidation of an atom or ion or molecule; for simple atoms or ions the oxidation number is equal to the ionic charge; "th…

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Alkali noun · 78% connection

any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water; "bases inclu…

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Base noun · 78% connection

any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water; "bases inclu…

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Bilirubin noun · 78% connection

A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment.

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Bond noun · 78% connection

A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…

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Bronze adjective · 78% connection

A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.

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Chestnut noun · 78% connection

a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse

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Chromatrope noun · 78% connection

An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by me…

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Chrysophyta noun · 78% connection

mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment; yellow-green and golden-brown algae and d…

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Colcothar noun · 78% connection

Polishing rouge; a reddish brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment; -- called also crocus Martis.

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Color noun · 78% connection

That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors.

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Division Chrysophyta noun · 78% connection

mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment; yellow-green and golden-brown algae and d…

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Firework noun · 78% connection

A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials th…

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Limonite noun · 78% connection

Hydrous sesquioxide of iron, an important ore of iron, occurring in stalactitic, mammillary, or earthy forms, of a dark brown color, a…

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Linnet noun · 78% connection

Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common European species (L…

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Melanin noun · 78% connection

A black pigment found in the pigment-bearing cells of the skin (particularly in the skin of the negro), in the epithelial cells of the…

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Melanoscope noun · 78% connection

An instrument containing a combination of colored glasses such that they transmit only red light, so that objects of other colors, as…

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Musk noun · 78% connection

A substance of a reddish brown color, and when fresh of the consistence of honey, obtained from a bag being behind the navel of the ma…

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Natural adjective · 78% connection

in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature; "a very natural development"; "our natural environment"; "natural science…

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