GREEN
Pure green has an RGB value of 000-255-0 and a Hex value of 00FF00.
Green is the strongest wavelength of light in our sun, and very early life is likely to have used this - absorbing green and reflecting other colours such as red, blue, yellow, and so on - to create wonderfully-varied colours, until chlorophyll-based life developed, which are cyan in colour and all reject and reflect green light and instead absorb various other colours of light that are not so strong. Since the by-product of chlorophyll is to create an oxygen-rich atmosphere, this pretty much killed off the other forms of life on earth, and made the way for us to grow and develop. And that's why almost all of our plant-life today is green!
In history it is the colour of Spring, of growth and rebirth, and later of the colour of merchants too. The ancient Greeks felt it to be the colour of many things that we think of as 'blue' - for example the sea was the same colour as trees for them, but they used it very rarely. The Romans loved it, though, and in Latin there are about ten words for different shades of green. Many old paintings look like everyone has green faces, but this is not how they were intended: when painted new, the painters put a layer of green below the pink to give a more realistic colour, but over time the top layer has often faded too much, making the subjects in old paintings look ill!
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The 2013 Annual UK Mega Event
Heritage Motor Centre, Warwickshire
on Saturday 3rd August 2013
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Visit: UK Mega 2013 Website
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