Wednesday, 7th September 2016 – Chemistry, Colour, Paper and Cloth – Marguerita McBride
It’s a colourful world
Our colourful world is amazing and yet it took lots of experimentation through hundreds of years to develop techniques for colouring paper, cloth and, more recently, to have coloured plastics, even coloured bubbles. Modern techniques and materials have allowed for an explosion of colour. Dyes, pigments, heat transfer processes, clever use of Chemistry and of course, the development of modern synthetic fibres. We have come a long way since mauveine and Queen Victoria.
As you might imagine, Marguerita’s talk was both colourful and fascinating.
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