phthalocyanine green

noun

variants or phthalocyanine green G

: a green pigment that is made by passing chlorine into a melt containing the copper derivative of phthalocyanine and aluminum chloride until it is almost completely chlorinated and that is used similarly to phthalocyanine blue

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