Perkin's perfect purple : how a boy created color with chemistry
by Brown, Tami Lewis (Author), Dunn, Debbie Loren (Author)
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Many years ago, the color purple was available only to a privileged few because the process was very complicated and expensive. Then in 1856, a boy named William Henry Perkin was testing a hypothesis about a cure for malaria and found that his experiment resulted in something else--something vivid a... Full description