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Finale: Color in Foods, Photochemistry, Photoluminescence, Pharmaceuticals, Fireworks, Fun, and the Future

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This final chapter will alliteratively pick up many topics that fell outside the trajectory traced by the history–chemistry—color interface in the previous seven chapters. We will see how colored additives affected the food quality of the past and, by extension, how color has affected, and continues to influence, so many other aspects of our daily lives.

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Orna, M.V. (2013). Finale: Color in Foods, Photochemistry, Photoluminescence, Pharmaceuticals, Fireworks, Fun, and the Future. In: The Chemical History of Color. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32642-4_8

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