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  2. Eye color - Wikipedia

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    The appearance of blue, green, and hazel eyes results from the Tyndall scattering of light in the stroma, a phenomenon similar to Rayleigh scattering which accounts for the blue sky. [5] Neither blue nor green pigments are present in the human iris or vitreous humour .

  3. Seas with color names - Wikipedia

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    The names are: The Red Sea, White Sea, Black Sea, and Yellow Sea. Their names are given by the color of the water. Sometimes a system of color symbolism was used as the following method green or light blue for east, black or dark for north, white for west, and red for south. This method is called cardinal directions. [1]

  4. The Rarest Eye Color in the World: What It Is and Why

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    Blue, brown, hazel, green and all of the shades in between—there is one in the list that a small two percent of the population hold. ... There are also rare cases of violet and red-colored eyes ...

  5. Blue iceberg - Wikipedia

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    At an approximate depth of 30 feet (9.1 m), red is no longer visible to the naked eye. At 75 feet (23 m), yellow looks greenish-blue, because the water has absorbed the yellow light. Finally, all that remains visible to the naked eye, appears as a mutation of blue or green, while the water above the surface filters out the sunlight.

  6. How Rare Are Green Eyes, Exactly? - AOL

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  7. How Rare Are Hazel Eyes, Exactly? - AOL

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    Hazel eyes tend to change colors due to Rayleigh scattering—the same factor that makes the sky appear blue. This optical effect occurs in the stroma, which is a thin layer of tissue in front of ...

  8. Yellow Sea - Wikipedia

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    The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of the Yellow Sea ("Hwang Hai") as follows: [1]. The Yellow Sea is separated from the Sea of Japan by the boundary from the southern end of Haenam Peninsula in Jeollanamdo to Jeju Island and divided into the East China Sea by the boundary from the west end of Jeju Island to the Yangtze River estuary.

  9. Impossible color - Wikipedia

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    These are simultaneously dark and impossibly saturated. For example, to see "stygian blue": staring at bright yellow causes a dark blue afterimage, then on looking at black, the blue is seen as blue against the black, also as dark as the black. The color is not possible to achieve through normal vision, because the lack of incident light (in ...