Classification of microbes based on specific nutritional requirements. Heterotroph = use carbon sources (sugars, alcohols, carbs, fats, proteins) Autotroph = use inorganic carbon source (CO2) Chemotroph = use organic (glucose)/inorganic (reduced Fe2+) chemicals for energy.
You can color any metal containing iron, such as steel, with the oven heat of an ordinary kitchen range. Depending on the temperature setting, the steel changes color across a spectrum of shades ranging from pale yellow to dark blue. In addition, literally hundreds of chemicals will change the color of metal surfaces. Some of them are too toxic for amateurs to use. For example, cyanides, nitric acid, chromic acid, mercuric chloride, and lead acetate are hazardous chemicals only professionals should attempt to use.
Colored gold alloys. When two metals are dissolved in each other (as is the case with alloys), the color is often a mixture of the two. For example, copper dissolved in gold changes the color from a yellow-gold to a red-gold.Silver dissolved in gold creates a green-gold color.White gold contains palladium and silver. The color of gold jewelry can be attributed to the addition of different amounts of several metals (such as copper, silver, zinc, and so on).he addition of aluminum to gold creates a brittle purple gold. Purple gold used in a pin, and a purple gold inlay within a yellow gold ring. When indium or gallium is added to gold, a blue color can result. The cause of color in these intermetallics is different than that of yellow gold.