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You may need rendering support to display the Persian text in this article correctly. Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. During post-classical and early modern Europe, green was the color commonly associated with wealth, merchants, bankers, and the gentry, while red was reserved for the nobility. The word green comes from the Middle English and Old English word grene, which, like the German word grün, has the same root as the words grass and grow. The first recorded use of the word as a color term in Old English dates to ca. Latin with viridis also has a genuine and widely used term for “green”.

570 nm, but many historical and non-European languages make other choices, e. In some languages, including old Chinese, Thai, old Japanese, and Vietnamese, the same word can mean either blue or green. Old Irish glas “green, grey” and to Welsh glas “blue”. M cone cells in the eye more than the long-wavelength L cones. Green, blue and red are additive colors.

All the colors seen are made by mixing them in different intensities. Human eyes have color receptors known as cone cells, of which there are three types. Lasers emitting in the green part of the spectrum are widely available to the general public in a wide range of output powers. Other green wavelengths are also available using DPSS technology ranging from 501 nm to 543 nm. The Chicago River is dyed green every year to mark St. Many minerals provide pigments which have been used in green paints and dyes over the centuries. Pigments, in this case, are minerals which reflect the color green, rather that emitting it through luminescent or phosphorescent qualities.