For Chinese blue, there has been renewed interest in its history, its mode of synthesis, its relationship to Chinese purple, its heritage significance, its possible role in nanotechnology and applications for its powerful luminescence in the NIR. It is quite possible that the story is not over ...
Ancient Chinese secret(idea) by anyend Sat Jul 05 2003 at 21:32:23The Asian equivalent of saying, in jest, "it's a Black thing, you can't understand." It's a way of avoiding a long-winded explanation. It comes from a TV commercial from 1972 for Calgon laundry detergent. In th...