Abraxas Merkurgrün - Mercury Green

[savarez]

I'm not sure why this is called "Mercury" Green... when I think of Mercury, I think of highly toxic, mirror-like liquid substance, and not a vegetal green. There were many cars called "Mercury". Apparently there was an Merkur Xr-4ti that was a German build Ford sold in the US in the late 80s, but I really don't know if the green color was a signature color associated with the automobile. If anyone had ideas as to why this color is named "Mercury", I'd be interested!

 

 

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[BobR]

Thanks for your great reviews of this brand of inks. You made me curious about the name also, and after a bit of searching, it appears to refer to the spectral analysis of mercury, you can search for "mercury green line" which is a well-known manifestation apparently. See this link http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase...mod/scaleh.html

[Michael R.]

Many thanks for the nice review.

 

I've been interested in Abraxas inks since a long time but never had a chance to buy some.

 

"Merkur" refers to the planet "Mercury" in German so the name Merkurgrün is not associated to the element mercury - but the planet is not green either....?!

 

 

Abraxas has a whole series of inks named after plants:

 

Abraxas Planetentinten

 

Also see:

 

Abraxas Artist Line

 

Cheers

 

Michael

Edited September 11, 2008 by Michael R.

[savarez]

Thanks for your great reviews of this brand of inks. You made me curious about the name also, and after a bit of searching, it appears to refer to the spectral analysis of mercury, you can search for "mercury green line" which is a well-known manifestation apparently. See this link http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase...mod/scaleh.html

 

Thank you for the wonderful link! The ink is indeed a good representation of the 546nm spike in the Mercury spectrum! Great find!

[Robert Hughes]

Ah, that mercury green! It's why fluorescent lights have a greenish tint to them, and why photographs taken under fluorescents and HID lights have that "night of the living dead" look to them.

[Imzadi]

Definitely different. Kind of pastel on my monitor. Thanks for sharing.

[acuraal3]

Abraxes Merkur green is Very, Very close to the Omas 90 green ink that came with the Omas

Limited edition pen that Omas made to commemorate the World Cup in 1990.

 

I was able to buy a dozen bottles of it from Abraxes in Europe.

 

An ink I use regularly.

 

Al Besser