Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World

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Why do people keep calling Perkin's discovery accidental? While it's true he was seeking synthetic quinine, not aniline dye, he became interested in the odd reaction he was getting, and quite deliberately pursued it to find out what it meant. Tangential might be a better word here, and that's a word that accompanies quite a few scientific discoveries.

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