The Whiteness of the Whale, a chapter in Moby Dick, is dedicated to the history of that colourless "colour".
With a huge grin, she delicately launches her infamous "falsetto from the ghetto" vocals into "Colourless Colour", from the self-titled debut album co-written by La Roux's shadowy other half Ben Langmaid, which became one of the biggest records of 2009.
For example, amphibians like the olm that live in caves may be largely colourless as colour has no function in that environment, but they show some red because of the haem pigment in their red blood cells, needed to carry oxygen.
Both jadestone types may be white or colourless, but colours such as red, green, violet, and gray may occur owing to the presence of iron, chromium, or manganese impurities, respectively.
Depending upon its thickness and the quality of its surface, the nail plate may be pink or whitish; the nail itself is translucent and colourless, allowing the colour of the blood in the superficial capillaries of the nail bed to show through.
Depending on chemical composition, crystals can be translucent to nearly opaque, with a wide variety of colours: colourless, white, yellowish, orange, flesh red, pink and green (Palache et al., 1951 ▶, and references therein).
Magnesium-rich amphiboles such as anthophyllite, cummingtonite, and tremolite are colourless or light in colour.
Complete reduction of AgNO3 to Ag+ ions was confirmed by the change in colour from colourless to colloidal brown.
Afzelia quanzensis bark extract when incubated with AgNO3 solution under dark conditions changed its colour from colourless to light reddish and finally to reddish brown.
Illicit methamphetamine exists in a number of colours, although colourless, white and yellow are most common.
Beta-carotene dioxygenase-2, the enzyme encoded by the BCDO2 gene, acts by diffusing colourful carotenoids into colourless apocarotenoids, and this changes the skin colour from yellow to white.
