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    This document discusses the color orange. It begins by explaining that orange is the color between yellow and red in the visible light spectrum, with a dominant wavelength of 585-620 nanometers. Orange is a secondary color created by mixing red and yellow pigments. The color orange in fruits and vegetables like carrots comes from carotene, a pigment that plants use to convert sunlight into energy. Surveys show orange is often associated with amusement, activity, autumn seasons, and danger. It has also been the national color of the Netherlands and is an important symbolic color in Buddhism and Hinduism.

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    This document discusses the color orange. It begins by explaining that orange is the color between yellow and red in the visible light spectrum, with a dominant wavelength of 585-620 nanometers. Orange is a secondary color created by mixing red and yellow pigments. The color orange in fruits and vegetables like carrots comes from carotene, a pigment that plants use to convert sunlight into energy. Surveys show orange is often associated with amusement, activity, autumn seasons, and danger. It has also been the national color of the Netherlands and is an important symbolic color in Buddhism and Hinduism.

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    Orange is the colour between yellow and red on the spectrum of visible light.

     Human eyes perceive
    orange when observing light with a dominant wavelength between roughly 585 and 620 nanometres.
    In painting and traditional colour theory, it is a secondary colour of pigments, created by mixing
    yellow and red. It is named after the fruit of the same name.
    The orange colour of carrots, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, oranges, and many other fruits and
    vegetables comes from carotenes, a type of photosynthetic pigment. These pigments convert the
    light energy that the plants absorb from the sun into chemical energy for the plants' growth. Similarly
    the hues of autumn leaves are from the same pigment after chlorophyll is removed.
    In Europe and America, surveys show that orange is the colour most associated with amusement,
    the unconventional, extroverts, warmth, fire, energy, activity, danger, taste and aroma,
    the autumn and Allhallowtide seasons, as well as having long been the national colour of
    the Netherlands and the House of Orange. It also serves as the political colour of Christian
    democracy political ideology and most Christian democratic political parties.[1] In Asia it is an
    important symbolic colour of Buddhism and Hinduism.[2]

    Etymology[edit]
    In English, the colour orange is named after the appearance of the ripe orange fruit.[3] The word
    comes from the Old French orange, from the old term for the fruit, pomme d'orange. The French
    word, in turn, comes from the Italian arancia,[4][5] based on Arabic nāranj (‫)نارنج‬, derived from
    the Sanskrit nāraṅga (नारङ् ग).[6] The earliest known recorded use of orange as a colour name in
    English was in 1502, in a description of clothing purchased for Margaret Tudor.[7][8] Another early
    recorded use was in 1512,[9][10] in a will now filed with the Public Record Office. The place-name
    "Orange" has a separate etymology and is not related to that of the color.[11]
    Prior to this word's being introduced to the English-speaking world, saffron already existed in the
    English language.[12] Crog also referred to the saffron colour, so that orange was also referred to
    as ġeolurēad (yellow-red) for reddish orange, or ġeolucrog (yellow-saffron) for yellowish orange.[13][14]
    [15]
     Alternatively, orange things were sometimes described as red such as red deer, red hair, the Red
    Planet and robin redbreast.

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