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    Sir William Henry Perkin The Man You Should Thank For Synthesized Dye

    Via – The Doctor Weighs In Purple- The Colour of Aristocracy Before the Industrial Revolution took England by storm, purple was the color of the aristocracy. To produce purple dye, small mollusks were used. But, the Tyre region of the Mediterranean Sea was the only region in the world where mollusk was available. And that became a huge problem, as…

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