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Rust is an orange-brown color resembling 
The first recorded use of ''rust'' as a color name in English was in 1692. Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 203; Color Sample of Rust: Page 35 Plate 6 Color Sample A12
iron oxide
Iron oxides are chemical compounds composed of iron and oxygen. Several iron oxides are recognized. All are black magnetic solids. Often they are non-stoichiometric. Oxyhydroxides are a related class of compounds, perhaps the best known of wh ...
. It is a commonly used color in stage lighting
Stage lighting is the craft of lighting as it applies to the production of theater, dance, opera, and other performance arts.
and appears roughly the same color as photographic safelight
A safelight is a light source suitable for use in a photographic darkroom. It provides illumination only from parts of the visible spectrum to which the photographic material in use is nearly, or completely insensitive.
Design
A safelight usua ...
s when used over a standard tungsten
Tungsten, or wolfram, is a chemical element with the symbol W and atomic number 74. Tungsten is a rare metal found naturally on Earth almost exclusively as compounds with other elements. It was identified as a new element in 1781 and first isol ...
light source.
The first recorded use of ''rust'' as a color name in English was in 1692. Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 203; Color Sample of Rust: Page 35 Plate 6 Color Sample A12
Origin
Rust is named after the resulting phenomenon of theoxidation
Redox (reduction–oxidation, , ) is a type of chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of substrate change. Oxidation is the loss of electrons or an increase in the oxidation state, while reduction is the gain of electrons or ...
of iron
Iron () is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from la, ferrum) and atomic number 26. It is a metal that belongs to the first transition series and group 8 of the periodic table. It is, by mass, the most common element on Earth, right in ...
. The word 'rust' finds its etymological origins in the Proto-Germanic word ''rusta'', which translates to "redness." The word is closely related to the term "ruddy
Ruddy is a reddish-rosy crimson colour, closer to red than to rose.
Ruddy may also refer to:
Surname
*Albert S. Ruddy (born 1930), Canadian-born American film producer
*Christopher Ruddy (born 1965), American journalist; CEO of NewsMax Media
* ...
," which also refers to a reddish coloring in an object.
References
See also
*List of colors
These are the lists of colors;
* List of colors: A–F
* List of colors: G–M
* List of colors: N–Z
* List of colors (compact)
* List of colors by shade
* List of color palettes
* List of Crayola crayon colors
* List of RAL colors
* List of X ...
Shades of brown
Shades of orange
Shades of red
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