This August I went in search of Pthalo. Oxford does not
know about Pthalo, at least not the Shorter. Google’s first hit is Wordnik: “'pthalo' has been looked up 1705 times,
is no one's favorite word yet, has been added to 2 lists, has 6 comments, and
is not a valid Scrabble word.” It’s
still edging its way into Common English, an artist’s contraction of
phthalocyanine, a synthetic compound discovered by accident in 1927. The
substance inspires the blues: monastral blue, phthalo blue, helio blue, thalo
blue, Winsor blue, phthalocyanine blue, C.I. Pigment Blue 15:2, Copper
phthalocyanine blue, and Cu-Phthaloblue.
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