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Etymology
From Egyptian + blue, from being a blue invented by Ancient Egyptians.
Noun
Egyptian blue (countable and uncountable, plural Egyptian blues)
- A pigment made from calcium copper tetrasilicate (“CaCuSi4O10”), the first artificial pigment, a blue, used by Egyptians for over 3 millennia, before dying out during the Roman Empire; one of the few alternates to lapis lazuli during ancient times.
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