color

For those of us who read the Odyssey in middle school, the “wine-dark seas” will perhaps ring a bell. For those who study color, it is another example of an absence of words for the color blue.

The periodic table of the elements is logical. Sometimes. For example, as you go from the top (light elements) to the bottom of the table (heavy elements) the atoms get larger and (usually) rarer.

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