Color Equivalent

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Color Equivalent

a value that characterizes the color of a celestial body. Various values related to the energy distribution in the spectrum of the celestial body may be used as color equivalents. Since the 1950’s the color index has been used almost exclusively to characterize the color of celestial bodies.

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It is a persistent, low-growing, densely spreading, profuse-flowering cultivar with a leaf color equivalent to green class 143A on the Royal Horticultural Society Color Chart (Anonymous, 1995).

Registration of 'Durana' white clover

They'll be able to predict the final printed brown, blue or green by selecting from the process equivalent using a PMS process color equivalent chart.

Process color: a look at three variables affecting color

It is a persistent, high-yielding, densely spreading, profuse-flowering cultivar with a leaf color equivalent to green class 143A on the Royal Horticultural Society Color Chart (Anonymous, 1995).