Here's a curious thing. I managed to get a large blob of Noodler's Sequoia on my fingers yesterday. I washed my hands with soap only, since I had nothing else to hand, and of course that doesn't remove the stain all at once; but when I examined it, I saw that the stain was unequivocally blue. In fact it was royal blue.
How would you ink analysts and chemists out there account for that?
Titivillus
Mar 3 2007, 03:36 PM
| QUOTE (Col @ Mar 3 2007, 10:30 AM) |
Here's a curious thing. I managed to get a large blob of Noodler's Sequoia on my fingers yesterday. I washed my hands with soap only, since I had nothing else to hand, and of course that doesn't remove the stain all at once; but when I examined it, I saw that the stain was unequivocally blue. In fact it was royal blue.
How would you ink analysts and chemists out there account for that? |
Col,
Different dyes clean differently. IF you take a piece of paper towel and put a drop of ink on it you'll see all the different colors that are within it. I have seen black that is purple and blue and green.
Kurt
Judybug
Mar 3 2007, 03:38 PM
Hmm. I'm not an ink analyst, but I remember from Kindergarten finger-painting class that green is made by mixing blue and yellow. Is it possible that the yellow is less permanent and washed away, leaving the blue on your fingers? Just a guess.
Judybug
| QUOTE (Judybug @ Mar 3 2007, 03:38 PM) |
| Is it possible that the yellow is less permanent and washed away, leaving the blue on your fingers? |
Yes, I was thinking along those lines - that's probably it. Especially as Sequioa is quite a dark green, which probably means there isn't a great deal of yellow to wash away.
Melnicki
Mar 3 2007, 09:15 PM
Here is one of my paper towel chromatography experiments with Sequoia.
Wow!
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