Shades of green
Peter Childs, University of Limerick, investigates words in chemistry.
Reading a novel recently I was struck by how many words for green were used. Green is a word that came into Old English (grene) via German from Norse. Several 'green' words have chemical, if not environmental, connections. How many synonyms or words for green can you think of?
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