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    William Perkin was an 18-year-old scientist who accidentally discovered the first synthetic dye, mauve, while attempting to synthesize quinine. When he cleaned experimental beakers left with a dirty brown grease using alcohol, the grease turned into a vivid purple dye. Perkin went on to open a successful dyeworks shop and invented other synthetic colors, changing the world of dyes and coloring things permanently for the first time. Queen Victoria herself wore clothing dyed with Perkin's mauveine dye.

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    William Perkin was an 18-year-old scientist who accidentally discovered the first synthetic dye, mauve, while attempting to synthesize quinine. When he cleaned experimental beakers left with a dirty brown grease using alcohol, the grease turned into a vivid purple dye. Perkin went on to open a successful dyeworks shop and invented other synthetic colors, changing the world of dyes and coloring things permanently for the first time. Queen Victoria herself wore clothing dyed with Perkin's mauveine dye.

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    VUCA APRIL 2020 (1) 2 - Part - 1

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    William Perkin was an 18-year-old scientist who accidentally discovered the first synthetic dye, mauve, while attempting to synthesize quinine. When he cleaned experimental beakers left with a dirty brown grease using alcohol, the grease turned into a vivid purple dye. Perkin went on to open a successful dyeworks shop and invented other synthetic colors, changing the world of dyes and coloring things permanently for the first time. Queen Victoria herself wore clothing dyed with Perkin's mauveine dye.

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    ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERY:

    CHANGES THE WORLD


    By Nishtha Sehgal, Grade 8, SNS Noida

    Didyouknowthefirstsyntheticdyediscoveredwasmauveor
    purple. An accidental discovery made by young 18-year-old
    WilliamPerkin.

    Weliveinaworldfilledwithsurprises.It'snearlyimpossibleto
    evenimagineacolourlessworld.Colourcharacterisestheworld
    asbeautiful.Itiswhatmakesthingsaroundusstandout.Colour
    helps make sense about things around us, otherwise if
    everythingbeblackorwhiteitwouldbedifficulttodistinguish

    v olatile U ncertain C omplex A mbiguous


    APRIL 2020
    onethingfromanother.Forthis,weoughtto
    thanktheoneandonlyWilliamPerkinsforheis
    theonewhodiscoveredthebizarreconcept.

    In1856,scientistWilliamHenryPerkinfailedin
    an experiment to synthetically produce
    quinine,achemicalthathelpstreatmalaria.

    Thebeakersusedintheexperimentswereleft
    filled with a dirty brown grease. When Perkin
    cleaned out those beakers, with alcohol. The
    browngreasebecameavividrose-purpledye.
    WilliamPerkinnamedthedye'maviein'.
    WILLIAMHENRYPERKIN
    Mauveinewasapermanentstain.Thefollowing
    discoveryopenednewdoorsforPerkin.

    Soon he opened a dyeworks shop in London.


    Perkininventedothersyntheticcoloursaswell.
    By1862,QueenVictoriaherselfworegarments
    dyedwithmauveine.

    v olatile U ncertain C omplex A mbiguous


    APRIL 2020

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