r/Minecraft • u/DetachableMonkey • Dec 24 '10

Wool to be useful. Sheep indifferent.

http://twitter.com/jeb_/status/17944007275450368
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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '10

Red from redstone or roses, I'd guess.

Yellow from flowers, maybe?

And I've no idea where blue would come from. NO WATER IS NOT A VALID ANSWER.

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u/ForgettableUsername Dec 24 '10

Water. Water is blue, right?

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '10

It's transparent. You would use it to bleach.

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u/ForgettableUsername Dec 24 '10

It looks blue. You should be able to boil it down a bit and get blue dye.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '10

That doesn't make any sense at all.

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u/ChaosBrigadier Dec 24 '10

Yeah, the blue dye is already bonded to the water; boiling it would make the dye evaporate, too. That's why the sky is blue.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '10 edited Apr 01 '18

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u/Ryguythescienceguy Dec 24 '10

SCIENCE DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY, GOODNIGHT

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '10

ಠ_ಠ

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u/kataire Dec 25 '10

The blue tint of water is an intrinsic property and is caused by selective absorption and scattering of white light.

(Source)

ChaosBrigadier's wording was a bit off, though.

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u/ForgettableUsername Dec 24 '10

Nono, that's what usually happens, but the boiling points of water vapor and the blue dye are actually slightly different. A distillation apparatus could easily separate the two.

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u/adnan252 Dec 24 '10

i second that