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    Why getting it wrong can be oh so right
    The English Translator
    • Apr 18, 2020
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    Why getting it wrong can be oh so right

    New discoveries are sometimes just happy accidents. Take the colour mauve, for example. On the search for a new medicine to cure malaria, young William Henry Perkin accidentally discovered that the dirty brown sludge left at the bottom of a beaker had a purplish hue. Instead of producing quinine, the 18-year-old had just created the world’s first synthetic dye – mauveine, also known as aniline purple, purple aniline, and Perkin’s mallow. A discovery that d the world forever
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