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 | Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World (Reprint Edition) by Simon Garfield Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2002 ISBN-10: 0-393-32313-7 / 0393323137 ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32313-9 / 9780393323139 In 1856, while trying to synthesize artificial quinine, 18-year-old chemistry student William Perkin instead produced a murky residue. Fifty years later, he described the event: he "was about to throw a certain residue away when I thought it might be interesting. The solution of it resulted in a | |