flame color
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of flame color
First recorded in 1600–10
Example Sentences
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The rainbow flame demonstration teaches a concept central to the curriculum of high school chemistry: that certain metals, when burned, produce a flame color that is characteristic to its chemical makeup.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2015
Turn it a little and it glows a bright flame color with green lights round the margin.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
With her pearly sails and the line of flame color beneath, she looked a dwindling cloud; a little while, and she would be claimed of the distance and the dusk.
From To Have and to Hold by Johnston, Mary
Revers at the edge of overdress and on the virago sleeves are now of flame color, a Spanish pink, but were originally scarlet, I am sure.
From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Earle, Alice Morse
The faint clouds in the west were getting a superb flame color above and a misty purple below, and the sun had shot them with lances of yellow light.
From Main-Travelled Roads by Garland, Hamlin
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