Science Illustrated

Seducing colours

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The colour of chewing gum, slush ice, lipstick, and eyeliners is a product of red algae and the Spirulina bluegreen alga. The algae contain colourful phyco-biliprotei­ns, which can also be used in luminescen­t paint, etc.

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