Color Names

Purpurite Red

Purpurite's deep grape, a mineral that's more purple than this reddish version.

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Purpurite Red is a medium purple, close to plum.

It can be described as medium, moderate, rather unsaturated and purplish.

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Purpurite Red

Purpurite

Purpurite is a manganese phosphate mineral with the formula MnPO4, with varying amounts of iron depending upon its source. It occurs in color ranges from brownish black to purple and violet to dark red.

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Red

Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–750 nanometers. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a secondary color in the CMYK color model, and is the complementary color of cyan. Reds range from the brilliant yellow-tinged scarlet and vermillion to bluish-red crimson, and vary in shade from the pale red pink to the dark red burgundy.

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purpurite

Noun

  1. A manganese phosphate mineral with a striking purple colour.
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red

Noun

  1. The color of the setting sun, blood, and strawberries; the color which is evoked by the longest visible wavelengths (between about 625–740 nm), and a primary additive color.
  2. A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.

Adjective

  1. Of a red hue.
  2. Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.
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