Surprisingly green: copper and its pigments

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...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor: Beltrán Suito, Rodrigo
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:Perú
Recursos:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repositorio:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/7309
Acesso em linha:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/quimica/article/view/7309
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:copper
hemocyanins
green pigments
cobre
hemocianinas
pigmentos verdes
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Resumo: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.