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the color that exists in your printer and your ocean but barely in your eye
means A greenish-blue color sitting between blue and green on the spectrum, and one of the primary inks in color printing.
from From the Greek 'kyanos,' a word for a dark blue substance — including lapis lazuli and blue enamel. It drifted into scientific and artistic use to name the blue-green hue, and 'kyanos' is also the ancestor lurking inside 'cyanide,' named for the deep blue pigment Prussian blue from which the compound was first derived.
- missing receptor
- humans have no dedicated cyan cone cell
- printer staple
- the C in every CMYK ink cartridge
- named late
- the word only entered English around 1879
- shallow seas
- tropical water looks cyan from absorbed red light
- between worlds
- sits exactly between blue and green