Science of Color
Experiment with colorful chemistry and spin up some rainbow art!
Explore:
- Science of Chromatography
- Pigment Chemistry
- Spin Art
About This Crate: Colorful Chemistry
Colorful pigments can be mixed up into a rainbow of crayons, paints, and more. Photo by Dan Brady via Wikimedia (CC-BY-2.0)
- Did you know? CrayolaⓇ makes 120 different colors of crayons — all by mixing wax with different pigments.
- Tree leaves look green most of the time because of the pigment chlorophyll. But they also have red, yellow, and orange pigments hidden underneath. In the fall, the leaves start to lose their chlorophyll. This reveals the hidden pigments for a color-changing show!
- Early artists made cave paintings using materials they could easily find around them — like red and yellow dirt, white chalk, and black soot from fires.
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