Episode
1710: "The First New Blue in 200 Years"
- Podcast
- Interesting Things with JC
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- Jul 11, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 139
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Summary
Interesting Things with JC #1710: "The First New Blue in 200 Years" – Chemists heating a mixture of metal oxides for a magnetism experiment watched it cool into a vivid blue pigment no one expected, and the accidental discovery became the first new inorganic blue added to artists' palettes in roughly 200 years while finding uses far beyond paint.