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Mars brown

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noun

  1. a medium brown color.

  2. a brown pigment used in painting, artificially made from an iron oxide base and characterized by strong film-forming properties and permanence.

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They were formerly introduced by the author, and have been received under the names of Mars yellow, Mars orange, Mars red, Mars violet, and Mars brown.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

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