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  2. List of people with red hair - Wikipedia

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    Red or ginger hair may come in different shades, from strawberry blond to auburn. [1] With only 2% of the world's population having red hair, [2] red is the rarest natural hair-coloration. [1] The list includes people who have dyed their red hair into another color or whose red hair has gone grey with age, but not people who have dyed their ...

  3. Red hair - Wikipedia

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    Red hair, also known as ginger hair, is a human hair color found in 2–6% of people of Northern or Northwestern European ancestry and lesser frequency in other populations. It is most common in individuals homozygous for a recessive allele on chromosome 16 that produces an altered version of the MC1R protein.

  4. Human hair color - Wikipedia

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    Red hair ranges from light strawberry blond shades to titian, copper, and completely red. Red hair has the highest amounts of pheomelanin, around 67%, and usually low levels of eumelanin. At 1–2% of the west Eurasian population, it is the least common hair color in the world. It is most prominently found in the British Isles and in Udmurtia ...

  5. Minium (pigment) - Wikipedia

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    Minium, also known as red lead or red lead oxide, is a bright orange red pigment that was widely used in the Middle Ages for the decoration of manuscripts and for painting. Often mistaken for less poisonous cinnabar and vermillion , minium was one of the earliest pigments artificially prepared and is still in use today. [ 1 ]

  6. Lead (II,IV) oxide - Wikipedia

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    Lead(II,IV) oxide, also called red lead or minium, is the inorganic compound with the formula Pb 3 O 4. A bright red or orange solid, it is used as pigment, in the manufacture of batteries, and rustproof primer paints. It is an example of a mixed valence compound, being composed of both Pb(II) and Pb(IV) in the ratio of two to one. [2]

  7. Sindoor - Wikipedia

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    The turmeric powder becomes red when mixed with lime juice or lime powder. [4] Unlike red lead and vermilion, these are not poisonous. [4] [5] Modern material being sold as sindoor mainly uses vermilion, an orange-red pigment, the purified and powdered form of cinnabar, which is the chief form in which mercury sulfide naturally occurs. As with ...

  8. Auburn hair - Wikipedia

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    Whereas Titian hair is a brownish shade of red hair, auburn hair is specifically defined as including the actual color red. Most definitions of Titian hair describe it as a brownish-orange color, [1] [2] but some describe it as being reddish. [3] This is in reference to red hair itself, not the color red.

  9. Titian hair - Wikipedia

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    Whereas Titian hair is a brownish shade of red hair, auburn hair is a brownish shade of hair encompassing the actual color red. Most definitions of Titian hair describe it as a brownish-orange color, [5] but some describe it as being reddish. [6] This is in reference to red hair itself, not the color red.