Midweek Mini: A Re-Discovered Color from Ancient Times?

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🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This Minisode was originally uploaded with Episode 312: Untold Tales of LA with Brett Bayonne - some of the topics discussed might be outdated. Subscribe to our Patreon to listen and watch the Minisodes as they release every week! http://patreon.com/CHILLUMINATIPOD

Mike Martin - http://www.youtube.com/@themoleculemindset
Jesse Cox - http://www.youtube.com/jessecox
Alex Faciane - https://www.youtube.com/@StarWarsOldCanonBookClub/

Editor: DeanCutty
Producer: Hilde @ https://bsky.app/profile/heksen.bsky.social
Show Art: Studio Melectro @ http://www.instagram.com/studio_melectro
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Egyptian Blue: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-are-recreating-the-long-lost-recipe-for-egyptian-blue-the-worlds-oldest-known-synthetic-pigment-180986778/
Biological Qubit: https://pme.uchicago.edu/news/scientists-program-cells-create-biological-qubit-multidisciplinary-breakthrough

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0:00.0	Notice! Notice! This midweek mini was recorded several months ago and may not be up to date with current events.
0:11.0	For fresh minisode uploads with every episode, head to patreon.com slash Chalumani Pod. Yeah.
0:46.5	Oh, yeah.
0:48.6	Oh, yeah.
0:50.8	That sounds right.
0:52.7	Yeah, definitely.
0:53.4	That or 2.30, I think.
0:55.0	Either one. Definitely, yeah. And welcome, Brett, to our Minnesota. We talk about weird news things throughout the world and some reader stories and moan into the microphone every single time for over a hundred. Don't like that. Thank you for having me in this very special place. It's wonderful. I feel like I've infiltrated a place I'm not supposed to be so thank you.
1:14.0	You're in. in this very special place. Um, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, through the, you're through the, you've out, you've broken out of your, uh, route. Uh, huh. All right, so what do you got for us today? Uh, Jesse, what do you have. Let's start with you, Jesse. Well, I have a fun little tale.
1:27.7	So, uh, All right, so what do you got for us today? Jesse, what do you have? Let's talk with you, Jesse.
1:30.1	Well, I have a fun little tale.
1:31.2	So... All of this tale, sir.
1:32.4	Yeah.
1:33.6	A team of Washington State University engineers
1:36.8	have successfully replicated a long-lost formula for a missing color
1:42.6	called Egyptian Blue. It is the world's oldest synthetic
1:49.1	pigment and it is fascinating. I'm going to send you boys a link to what it looks like.
1:56.4	What do you mean a missing color? We haven't. It's 5,000 years old. It's just blue, though, right? It is a very specific type of vibrant blue. Okay. Yeah. No, it is very vibrant, especially for an ancient pigment. Yeah. Yeah, you know, those ancient pigments were just not as good as modern ones. It was essentially a lost recipe. They didn't know how to make it.
2:18.3	And so what the WSU team decided to do was recreate it.
2:23.4	And they mimicked 12 potential formulas to nail exactly what it was comprised of.
2:31.7	And then subjected the mixtures to various temperatures and times
2:35.1	to simulate ancient production conditions. And then through microscopic analysis, the team
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