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GREEN…thts 1 of mY fAVOURAiTE colour..n here is sum info abt it.. 😉

Green occupies more space in the spectrum visible to the human eye and is second only to blue as a favorite color.
Green is the pervasive color in the natural world that is an ideal backdrop in interior design because we are so used to seeing it everywhere.
The natural greens, from forest to lime, are seen as tranquil and refreshing, with a natural balance of cool and warm (blue and yellow) undertones. Green is considered the color of peace and ecology.

However, there is an “institutional” side to green, associated with illness or Government-issued that conjure up negative emotions as do the “slimy” or bilious greens.

The Color Psychology of Green

• Green is a cool color that symbolizes nature and the natural world.
• Green also represents tranquility, good luck, health, and jealousy.

LOVE and LUSt…
Stories of the medieval period further portray it as representing love and the base, natural desires of man. In Persian and Sudanese poetry, dark-skinned women, called “green” women may be eroticized. Green is also used to describe jealousy and envy.Its is said that is also used to womanize a girl or a woman.
After Red color, Green color is used to define passion and love. Green color means going wild in love.

Death, Decay, And EViL…
Green is also known to have signified witchcraft, devilry and evil for its association with faeries and spirits of early English folklore. It also had an association with decay and toxicity.Actor Béla Lugosi wore green-hued makeup for the role of Dracula in the 1927–28 Broadway stage production. A green tinge in the skin is sometimes associated with nausea and sickness. A physically ill person is said to look green around the gills. The color, when combined with gold, is seen as representing the fading of youth.In the Celtic tradition, green was avoided in clothing for its superstitious association with misfortune and death.Green is thought to be an unlucky color in British and British-derived cultures,where green cars, wedding dresses, and theater costumes are all the objects of superstition. Spider-Man villains were often colored green to represent a contrast to the hero’s red. In some Far East cultures the color green is often used as a symbol of sickness and/or nausea..

In CULtURE….
In the 15th century “Saint Wolfgang and the Devil” by Michael Pacher, the Devil is green. Poets such as Chaucer also drew connections between the color green and the devil.[28]NatureIn many folklores and literatures, green has traditionally been used to symbolize nature and its embodied attributes, namely those of life, fertility, and rebirth. Green was symbolic of resurrection and immortality in Ancient Egypt; the god Osiris was depicted as green-skinned.It is often used to describe foliage and the sea, and has become a symbol of environmentalism. Someone who works well with plants is said to have a green thumb or green fingers, and the word greenhorn refers to an inexperienced person. A company is said to be greenwashing if they advertise positive environmental practices to cover up environmental destruction. Green is used to describe anyone young, inexperienced, or gullible (probably by analogy to unripe, i.e. unready or immature, fruit).[ Green was the traditional color worn by hunters in the 19th century particularly the shade called hunter green. In the 20th century most hunters began wearing the color olive drab, a shade of green, instead of hunter green..

Prosperity
The United States one dollar note, like all other American dollar bills, is historically green.In areas that use the U.S. Dollar as currency, green carries a connotation of money, wealth, and capitalism, because green is the color of United States banknotes, giving rise to the slang term greenback for cash. One of the more notable uses of this meaning is found in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. In this story is the Emerald City, where everyone wears tinted glasses which make everything look green. According to the populist interpretation of the story, the city’s color is used by the author, L. Frank Baum, to illustrate the financial system of America in his day, as he lived in a time when America was debating the use of paper money versus gold. Green can communicate safety to proceed, as in traffic lights. In China, green is associated with the east, with sunrise, and with life and growth. In Thailand, the color green is consider auspicious for those born on a Wednesday day (light green for those born at night .)

Etymology and linguistic definitions..
The etymology of the word “green” is related to nature and growth.The word green comes from the Old English word grÄ“ne, or, in its older form, grÅ“ni. This adjective is closely related to the Old English verb grōwan (“to grow, turn green”), which in its wonted usage referred primarily to plants, and goes back into Western Germanic and Scandinavian languages.[6] Cognates in other languages include West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, and Danish grøn. The first recorded use of green as a color name in English was in 700.

Many Asian languages have no word distinguishing blue from green, although recently published dictionaries do make the distinction.[8] The Thai word เขียว besides meaning “green” also means “rank” and “smelly” and holds other unpleasant associations.[9] In Japanese, despite the existence of a word in the modern language meaning “green”, the color is sometimes described as blue (青, Ao?), as in blue traffic light (青信号, Ao shingō?) and blue leaves (青葉, Aoba?), reflecting the absence of a word meaning “green” in old Japanese.

In Persian, the word for green is سبز sabz, but this word can also mean “black” or “dark”. In Persian erotic poetry, dark-skinned women are addressed as “green,” as in phrases like سبز گندم گون sabz-gandom-gun (literally “green wheat colored”) or سبز مليح sabz-malih (“a green beauty”).[10] Similarly, in Sudanese Arabic, dark-skinned people are described as أخضر akhḍar ‘green’, instead of black.
In scienceColor vision and colorimetryUnique green
(NCS S 2060-G)
Green additive primary

Chlorophyll is responsible for the green color in plants.The perception of greenness (in opposition to redness forming one of the opponent mechanisms in human color vision) is evoked by light which triggers the medium-wavelength M cone cells in the eye more than the long-wavelength L cones. Light which triggers this greenness response more than the yellowness or blueness of the other color opponent mechanism is called green. A green light source typically has a spectral power distribution dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 487–570 nm.

In additive color devices such as computer displays and televisions, one of the primary light sources is typically a narrow-spectrum yellowish-green of dominant wavelength ~550 nm; this “green” primary is combined with an orangish-red “red” primary and a purplish-blue “blue” primary to produce any color in between – the RGB color model. A unique green (green appearing neither yellowish nor bluish) is produced on such a device by mixing light from the green primary with some light from the blue primary.

By contrast in process color printing, a subtractive color system, green can be produced via a mixture of cyan and yellow ink, and in traditional color theory, green is produced by mixing yellow and blue paint.

Its complement
Munsell 2.5RP 5/9
An example green
Munsell 2.5G 5/9
Green is complementary to a purplish red or reddish purple color, in both additive and subtractive mixtures, and in simultaneous contrast effects and afterimages.

The sensitivity of the dark-adapted human eye is greatest at about 507 nm, a bluish-green color, while the light-adapted eye is most sensitive about 555 nm, a yellowish-green color. Human eyes have color receptors known as cone cells, of which there are three types. In some cases, one is missing or faulty, which can cause color blindness, including the common inability to distinguish red and yellow from green, known as deuteranopia or red–green color blindness. Green is restful to the eye. Studies show that a green environment can reduce fatigue.

In minerals and chemistry…
Emeralds come in many shades of green.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. The large number of green pigments makes it impossible to mention them all. Among the more notable green minerals, however is the emerald, which is colored green by trace amounts of chromium and sometimes vanadium. Chromium(III) oxide (Cr2O3), is called chrome green, also called viridian or institutional green when used as a pigment.For many years, the source of amazonite’s color was a mystery. Widely thought to have been due to copper because copper compounds often have blue and green colors, the blue-green color is likely to be derived from small quantities of lead and water in the feldspar.[18] Copper is the source of the green color in malachite pigments, chemically known as basic copper(II) carbonate. Early painters would also use copper in the form of verdigris mixed with wax and turpentine to create green pigmentation in paints.[Mixtures of oxidized cobalt and zinc were also used to create green paints as early as the 18th century. A more complete list of green minerals and pigments can be seen here.
Fireworks typically use barium salts to create green sparks.There is no natural source for green food colorings which has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Chlorophyll, the E numbers E140 and E141, is the most common green chemical found in nature, and only allowed in certain medicines and cosmetic materials. Quinoline Yellow (E104) is a commonly used coloring in the United Kingdom but is banned in Australia, Japan, Norway and the United States.Green S (E142) is prohibited in many countries, for it is known to cause hyperactivity, asthma, urticaria, and insomnia.

To create green sparks, fireworks use barium salts, such as barium chlorate, barium nitrate crystals, or barium chloride, also used for green fireplace logs.Copper salts typically burn blue, but cupric chloride (also known as “campfire blue”) can also produce green flames. Green pyrotechnic flares can use a mix ratio 75:25 of boron and potassium nitrate.Smoke can be turned green by a mixture: solvent yellow 33, solvent green 3, lactose, magnesium carbonate plus sodium carbonate added to potassium chlorate.
In biology
Frogs often appear green because light reflects off of a blue underlayer of chemicals and through a yellow upperlayer, filtering the light to be primarily green.Green is common in nature, as many plants are green because of a complex chemical known as chlorophyll which is involved in photosynthesis. This does not absorb green light because chlorophyll first arose in organisms in oceans where photosynthesis was already being done by Halobacteria that are purple as they extracted energy in the green part of the light spectrum using bacteriorhodopsin. The new organisms that then later came to dominate the extraction of light were selected to exploit the parts of the light spectrum not used by them. Animals typically use the color green as camouflage, blending in with the chlorophyll green of the surrounding environment.Green animals include, especially, amphibians, reptiles, and some fish, birds and insects. Most fish, reptiles, amphibians, and birds appear green because of a reflection of blue light coming through an over-layer of yellow pigment. Perception of color can also be affected by the surrounding environment. For example, broadleaf forests typically have a yellow-green light about them as the trees filter the light. Turacoverdin is one chemical which can cause a green hue in birds, especially. Invertebrates such as insects or mollusks often display green colors because of porphyrin pigments, sometimes caused by diet. This can causes their feces to look green as well. Other chemicals which generally contribute to greenness among organisms are flavins (lychochromes) and hemanovadin.Humans have imitated this by wearing green clothing as a camouflage in military and other fields. Substances that may impart a greenish hue to one’s skin include biliverdin, the green pigment in bile, and ceruloplasmin, a protein that carries copper ions in chelation.

NATiONLiTY n POLiTiCS : Green politics and Green party

Sovereign states with green flags:
Islamic states using green
Pan-African colors (red, black, and green)
Other, most commonly to represent either lush national vegetation or heraldrySeveral countries use green on their flags for symbolic or cultural reasons. Green, for example is one of the three colors (along with red and black, or red and gold) of Pan-Africanism. Several African countries thus use the color on their flags, including South Africa, Ghana, Senegal, Mali, Ethiopia, Togo, Guinea, Benin, and Zimbabwe. The Pan-African colors are borrowed from the Ethiopian flag, one of the oldest independent African countries. Green in these cases represents the natural richness of Africa.

Many flags of the Islamic world are green, as the color is considered sacred in Islam . The flag of Hamas, as well as the flag of Iran, is green, symbolizing their Islamist ideology. The flag of Libya consists of a simple green field with no other characteristics. It is the only national flag in the world with just one color and no design, insignia, or other details. In the run-up to Iran’s 2009 presidential election, the reformist candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi chose green as his campaign color, and it became pervasive among his supporters during the campaign and the post-election protests.Green is the lowest of the three bands on the flag of India. The green stands for fertility and prosperity. Earlier Indian flags had contained a similar green band representing Islam, the second-most predominant religion in India.
Vert tincture Other countries use flags for reasons of heraldry, or to represent lush national vegetation. In heraldry, green is called vert (French for “green”). Fourteenth century documents describe vert as a symbol of “jolliness and youth, but also of beauty and shame” as well as of death. Vert is used for the flags of Wales and Hungary, and is the basis for the Brazilian flag as well. Other countries using green in their flags use it to represent their country’s lush vegetation, as in the flag of Jamaica,and hope in the future, as in the flag of Nigeria.

The Wearing of the Green
Green is a symbol of Ireland, which is often referred to as the “Emerald Isle”. The color is particularly identified with the republican and nationalist traditions in modern times. It is used this way on the flag of the Republic of Ireland, in balance with white and the Protestant orange. Green is a strong trend in the Irish holiday St. Patrick’s Day.

Green has become the symbolic color of environmentalism, chosen for its association with nature, health, and growth. The Green Party is any of various political parties emphasizing ecology, grassroots democracy, nonviolence, and social justice. Green Parties, now active in over one hundred countries, are more broadly included in the green movement, and most are members of the Global Green Network. The association of green with advocates of the environment has extended to other circles as well, as is the case with Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, who is often referred to as the “Green Patriarch” because the new environmental focus which he brought about within the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

MetaphysicsIn the metaphysics of the “New Age Prophetess”, Alice Bailey, in her system called the Seven Rays which classifies humans into seven different metaphysical psychological types, the “third ray” of “creative intelligence” is represented by the color green. People who have this metaphysical psychological type are said to be “on the Green Ray”.[In Hinduism, Green is used to symbolically represent the fourth, heart chakra (Anahata). Psychics who claim to be able to observe the aura with their third eye report that someone with a green aura is typically someone who is in an occupation related to health, such as a physician or nurse, as well as people who are lovers of nature and the outdoors.

How Does the Color Green Make You Feel ???