The word green has the same Germanic root as the words for grass and grow 4.10 Social status, prosperity and the dollar.4.8 Dragons, fairies, monsters, and devils.2.3 Pigments, food coloring and fireworks.1.1 Languages where green and blue are one color.Green is also the traditional color of safety and permission a green light means go ahead, a green card permits permanent residence in the United States. This has led to similar campaigns in advertising, as companies have sold green, or environmentally friendly, products. Political groups advocating environmental protection and social justice describe themselves as part of the Green movement, some naming themselves Green parties. Because of its association with nature, it is the color of the environmental movement. In the European Union and the United States, green is also sometimes associated with toxicity and poor health, but in China and most of Asia, its associations are very positive, as the symbol of fertility and happiness.
In surveys made in American, European, and Islamic countries, green is the color most commonly associated with nature, life, health, youth, spring, hope, and envy. It was the color of the banner of Muhammad, and is found in the flags of nearly all Islamic countries. It is the historic color of Islam, representing the lush vegetation of Paradise. It also has a long historical tradition as the color of Ireland and of Gaelic culture. For this reason, the costume of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci and the benches in the British House of Commons are green while those in the House of Lords are red. Several minerals have a green color, including the emerald, which is colored green by its chromium content.ĭuring post-classical and early modern Europe, green was the color commonly associated with wealth, merchants, bankers and the gentry, while red was reserved for the nobility.
Many creatures have adapted to their green environments by taking on a green hue themselves as camouflage. By far the largest contributor to green in nature is chlorophyll, the chemical by which plants photosynthesize and convert sunlight into chemical energy. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a combination of yellow and cyan in the RGB color model, used on television and computer screens, it is one of the additive primary colors, along with red and blue, which are mixed in different combinations to create all other colors. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495–570 nm.
Green is the color between blue and yellow on the visible spectrum. You may need rendering support to display the Persian text in this article correctly.
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