Yellow

Symbolic system

In the Symbolic system, in Occident, the yellow is associated with: richness, the father.
the origin of this symbolic system resides in the fact that the yellow is the color of the Or and the Sun, by extension it is associated with the joy, good mood, the idealism.
the other side of the medal: the yellow also designates the traitors, the forgers, the adulteresses or the insane ones. Thus it is said that the yellow is “the color of the cuckolds” . One also indicates like yellow a workman strikebreaker, a breaker of Grève. It was the color of star with 6 points which the Nazis made carry to the Jews as a sign of humiliation. To less both of its connotations the Teinture originate in laugh Chavanne of Isieu meadows of Saint Chamond in the department of the the Loire. The dust of Sulfur used to fix the Pigment S on the fabrics impregnating clothing of the workers, allowing as their particular odor at a glance, to identify those which were engaged at the day to break the great strikes of 1870.
In the Symbolic system, in China, the yellow (huáng) is associated with the emperor, and, consequently, with Chinese monarchy. That gave the yellow Empereur 黄帝 huángdì. In China runs also the yellow river huánghé 黃河/黄河.
In the code of colors of electrical resistances and the condensers, the yellow color corresponds to figure 4, the multiplier x10000 and a temperature coefficient of 25ppm. In the standard CEI 60757, one names it YW (abbreviation of yellow).
yellow Belt: rank of training of the Judo and the Karaté corresponds to the 7^e Kyu (3^e level). The white and yellow belt corresponds to the 8^e Kyu (2^e level).
With the Red , the Blue and the Green , the yellow is one of the four colors adopted by the European Community for the containers and dustbins of the Recycling. The yellow containers are in theory intended to receive metal and plastic packing.

Use

In certain countries the yellow is the color of the Taxi S. This practice probably began with New York where Harry NR. Allen, an owner of taxi, has repaints its vehicle in yellow by learning that it was the most visible color by far. In other country it is the color of the post office and the letter-boxes, in particular in France and Switzerland.

It is also the color of the Yellow pages (phone book). Yellow Pages (or yellow pages) is a protocol of directory network developed by Sun called also NIS.

Many national flags use the yellow color, in particular the state of the Vatican.

Moreover, certain designers of mode use the yellow in their collections to raise the dye of the people who wear clothing.

In painting

The yellow, very much used, is there the intermediary between the Or and the orange.

One finds in the range of the yellows:

of the mineral yellows: Yellow of Yellow chromium, auréolin or Yellow Auréoline, of Ocher Hansa and .

The Orpiment (or Yellow royal, Yellow of Persia and Yellow arsenic of Persia, arsenic Yellow, Gold of insane the…).

Yellow of Yellow cobalt, zinc or Yellow gold button, Yellow barium Yellow or of overseas, baryta Yellow, strontia Yellow, Yellow of turbith, Yellow of mummy, others yellow minerals.

of the vegetable yellows: Yellow saffron and Curcuma, Yellow Indian, Yellow Gum gutte or of Kampuchea, Quercitrin and Quercitron, others yellow plants;
of the yellows of synthesis: Azo.
for the orange or Orange used in Painting, one encounters a great difficulty: “to classify, the Gamme of the colors (or Nuancier) this intermediate color enters the red and the yellow” Van Dyck.

Industrial pigments most usually used in painting:

PY1, PY13, PY14, PY65, PY97, PY182: Pigment of the azo type
PY3: Monoazo or, specifically, arylide 10G
PY17: Diazo (diarylide)
PY31: Chromate strontium
PY32: Chromate barium
PY34: Chromate lead
PY35: Sulphurize cadmium-zinc or sulphurizes cadmium
PY40: Cobalt-potassium nitrite
PY42: Synthetic iron hydroxide
PY43: Ground (natural iron hydroxide with other elements)
PY53: Nickel, antimony and titanium oxides or titanate of nickel
PY73: Aryl
PY74: Monoazo (aryl)
PY83: Azo (diaryle HR-70)
PY110: Isoindolinone
PY128 : Diazo
PY129: Azomethine
PY138: Quinaldine
PY150: Monoazo or azo complex nickel.
PY153: Complex metal
PY154: Benzimidazolone
PY184 : Bismuth vanadate

Ethnic classification

The yellow term Race designates in a generic way the xanthoderm individuals, originating in East Asia. The use of this terminology was particularly current in Europe as from the 19th century, according to the classification of the human people according to one of the apparent criteria (theory racialist). A person of the native of the Far East type can be indicated like " yellow " , but this term is used little today, the most used expression in the language running being " Asian ".

Expressions

To laugh yellow: to laugh to hide its shame or its embarrassment.
yellow Spot: another name of the Macula (at the bottom of the retina)
the small yellow is the name familiar given to glass of Pastis.
the Jaunisse is a disease which gives a yellow coloring to the skin.
yellow Alerte is the first level of alarm (before alarm orange and alarm Rouge) in the event of forecast of bad weather by Météo France (see weather Alerte). It is also the first level of alarm of the Plan Vigipirate.
Yellow like a huet! (To have the yellow skin)

Humor and cartoon

the yellow Mark is an album of Cartoon of the series Blake and Mortimer created by Edgar P. Jacobs.
yellow expression the “in front of, chestnut behind” inspired by Large Disgusting person character created by Jean-Marc Reiser.

Use of the yellow in the marks and publicity

the Lajaunie catechus, small grains of liquorice presented in a yellow box of paints.
It is the principal color of the logo of Renault.

Vegetable yellows

The vegetable yellows most known are quercitrin, the saffron and the lemon. The quercitron is a coloring yellow drawn from the quercitron, bark of a oak of North America.

Food dyes

Catalog notorious objects and yellow alive things

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