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What's your fav color/colour?
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Ethan Reigns
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I'll go with the Sparton Bluebird colour:
but this colour of glass will never be made again. Glass is coloured by metallic dopants. Iron gives you green. Cadmium gives you yellow. Copper gives you blue. Cobalt gives you red. But this colour comes from mercury and due to the toxicity and vapour pressure of mercury, this indigo colour could only be made in a vacuum furnace with vapour recovery. BTW the Sparton Bluebird holds the record for the most expensive radio ever sold on eBay - US $85,000.
There was an even more rare Sparton with a peach mirror colour, but I don't know what dopants were used.
but this colour of glass will never be made again. Glass is coloured by metallic dopants. Iron gives you green. Cadmium gives you yellow. Copper gives you blue. Cobalt gives you red. But this colour comes from mercury and due to the toxicity and vapour pressure of mercury, this indigo colour could only be made in a vacuum furnace with vapour recovery. BTW the Sparton Bluebird holds the record for the most expensive radio ever sold on eBay - US $85,000.
There was an even more rare Sparton with a peach mirror colour, but I don't know what dopants were used.