Surprisingly green: copper and its pigments

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Keywords:

copper, hemocyanins, green pigments

Abstract

The 2012 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Johan Petterson, a Swedish engineer who discovered that copper was responsible for turning hair green in a little Swedish town. Many green copper compounds used as pigments are present in nature and there are also the hemocyanins, copper-containing proteins found in the blood of some arthropods and mollusks.

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Author Biography

  • Rodrigo Beltrán Suito, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

    Rodrigo Beltrán es Bachiller en Química y se encuentra realizando su tesis de licenciatura en la Facultad de Cienciase Ingeniería de la PUCP (e-mail: rodrigo.beltran@pucp.pe)

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Published

2012-08-28

Issue

Vol. 26 No. 1-2 (2012)

Section

Premio IG Nobel

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How to Cite

Surprisingly green: copper and its pigments. (2012). Revista de Química, 26(1-2), 13-15. https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/quimica/article/view/7309