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Grettel found that a question was colour. She asked Nehemiah, a
ringing in her ears throughout the fellow pilgrim and Chemistry
pilgrimage. She wondered how the student and lecturer, if the chemical
art of painting (if just a matter of pollution could be extracted from
using paint on board) could possibly the river and made visible as a
communicate any kind of impactful colour. His answer was affirmative.
message about the pollution of Firstly, you can directly collect water
water by invisible chemical samples and then dry them out in
pollutants and microplastics. As she the chemical laboratory under a
noted: “This made me feel more slow heat. This leaves you with an
deflated.” But she speaks of a actual sediment, a “dust,” that you
moment of inspiration in the could mix into pigments. But
afternoon of that second day. “That secondly, heavy metal content in a
afternoon there was a moment fluid medium can be analysed
when we were having a group through the process of
reflection alongside the Swartkops chromatography, which represents
river, and I thought, maybe this metals through colour. In other
landscape should paint itself.” She words, if you cannot collect enough
decided that the way she could actual pigment, you can use the
connect painting (something chemical analysis to provide you
intrinsically visual) to invisible with a pallet of colours with which
chemical and plastic micro-pollution to represent the invisible. Grettel
was through its translation into set out to do both.
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