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Definition of Orange red

1. Noun. A variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Orange Red

Literary usage of Orange red

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"From hot ale. or AcOH the Ac deriv. seps. in orange- yellow crystals, probably a mixed form of the yellow and orange-red isomers. ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1911)
"... red orange and orange red, 4.3; violet, 4.4; blue violet, green blue, ... and red, 4.6; green blue and orange red, 4.7; green, 4.3; yellow green, 5; ..."

3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"The general trend is, then, that after-images whose components are blue and green shift toward blue; purple shifts toward blue; orange-red may or may not ..."

4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"Orange-red aqueous solution gives an orange-red precipitate with hydrochloric acid, and becomes dark with sodium hydroxide. Solution in sulphuric acid is ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"But it is remarkable that in the deep-sea animals the bright colors are almost always shades of orange and orange-red, occasionally brownish red, purple, ..."

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