Andrew Shields“Purple with ill-smelling dye”: The river in Coketown in Charles Dickens’s “Hard Times” (1854). #111Words #CharlesDickens #HardTimes #Coketown #PurpleDye #Basel #Mauveine #Fuchsine #Ciba #Geigy #Novartis #WilliamHenryPerkin https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/03/purple-with-ill-smelling-dye-river-in.html
tomsharpIn 1856, William Henry Perkin accidentally discovered the first synthetic dye and named it mauveine. He was trying to synthesize quinine from coal-tar distillates. #Poetry #Science #History #Chemistry #Mauveine #Perkin (https://sharpgiving.com/thebookofscience/items/p1856m.html)
Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐#Mauveine was revolutionary, when it was discovered. No one had ever see a #dye that vivid in human history, and the world went crazy for it. Queen Victoria of England wore a #mauve velvet gown to her daughter's wedding in 1858, and by the end of the decade, "mauve madness" had overtaken #fashion and society. Not only that, the commercialization of aniline dye chemistry would go on to revolutionize the pharmaceutical industry, as well.
SellaTheChemist@synthon61 @Protons4B Made it to Greenford 19 km faster than students travelling by public transport. My ice has made it too. And the students at. William Perkin School are decked out in purple as you would expect. #mauveine #StrangeIce
