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Rust is an orange-red-brown colour resembling iron oxide.
It is a commonly used colour in stage lighting and appears roughly the same colour as photographic safe-lights when used over a standard tungsten light source.
The first recorded use as a colour name in English was in 1692.
It is named after the resulting phenomenon of the oxidation of iron.
The word ‘rust’ finds its etymological origins in the Proto-Germanic word rusta, which translates to “redness.”
The word is closely related to the term “ruddy,” which also refers to a reddish colouring in an object.
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