Mysterious chemical changes color depending on perspective

Here is a crazy chemical that changes color depending on how it's viewed! I was first introduced to the effect when a friend showed me a hard to believe video that was posted by reddit user budget_cuts (thanks Zach for the tip!). In the video he shows a chemical that dramatically changes color depending on the perspective. He didn't say what chemical was used in the video, but I had to witness this effect in person, so I started reading and experimenting to try figuring it out.
original reddit post: / a_solution_we_made_in_...
The crazy effect is mainly due to a phenomenon called dichromatism that shows up in some substances where the color (hue) changes depending on the thickness or concentration of the solution. Surprisingly it wasn't untill 2007 that this effect was described in comprehensive scientific detail. (paper on the effect link.springer.com/article/10.... )
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styropyro I just saw this article where they use lasers to achieve this : Mini antimatter accelerator could rival the likes of the Large Hadron Collider

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styropyro WAIT! COLOUR CHANGING LASER! MAKE LASER ROTATE ABOUT A SPHERE OF THE LIQUID AND IT CHANGES COLOUR

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You can buy pumkin seed oil in Austria, it's kind of a local thing there. It's especially nice if you pour it onto some vanilla ice cream and the effects make it look a lot cooler. Edit: on wikipedia it said it's a national dish in a lot of former Austro-Hungarian countries, not only Austria, my apologies

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You can get quite strong dichromatism from red to green by mixing blue and yellow food coloring at the right concentration. I noticed this sort of effect years back when I was a kid: it was with that brand of food coloring that came in four little droplet-shaped cointainers in blue, yellow, green and red... I wish I could remember the brand of food coloring though.

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So cool! Thanks for explaining and showing it to us! :D

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Hydrocholic? You mean hydrochloric

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Could have been polarization as well just a filter on the glass and a filter on the lense but idk maybe even a polarization of the light itself

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You get a similar result with a potassium ferricyanide aqueous solution with an excess of potassium iodide and some sulfuric acid. The mixture looks yellow from above but red from the side.

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i wonder if this would also work with a square or rectangular container with sharp edges. like an aquarium but smaller. because atm it mostly looks like its only happening on curved surfaces. and the effect also looks a lot like refraction

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As you said blue florescent and daylight bulb make a huge differeance and in the video he uses both to trick your eyes its red when the camera is pointing to the yelow light and when he doges for the blue color he poits the camera up where there is a white florescent light

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I think I have seen that effect before, I don't remember well from where but it could be from nail polish remover the one that is pink, so basically acetone.

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Remember titrations from when I took chemistry three years ago. Fun subject.

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This reminds me of Steve Mould's video about (How sugar twists Light color to the right)

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i didn't even see this when it came out glad i saw it today.

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spent glowsticks also have this effect...the yellow ones are blue/light yellow, and the green ones are orange and green.

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cant get pumpkin seed oil but has some random chemical, love it

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Fascinating.

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The first thing that shot threw my mind was it was a chiral compound and that this effect was somehow linked to chirality ....

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Tanzanite(blue/amber) Chrysoberyl(Red/Green) AT&T Laser crystals(Red-orange-purple/Green-olive) and some amber (bluish/brownish) And something from Jamaca which is (Lemon/Kelly Green in second refractions) do that in a solid you could wear in a precious metal ring if you like.. Do you know that in a light green light source, rubies are still red?

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Its the same with a large cup of black tea. At the border its yellowisch but the deeper you look inside, the redder the hue gets,aswell as darker

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Having witnessed the phenomena some years ago while performing titration, dichromatism was my guess.

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If I'm interpreting this correctly, this is similar to the phenomenon that makes the sky blue during the day and reddish at dawn and dusk, although I think it's due to scattering not absorption of light

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What are common household products I can make a good "ionic liquid" from? (Oil soluble electric conductor and room temperature eucletic salt) I see a lot of ammonium salts and shampoos and such, some vitamins are close. I'm sure there must be be a household product pure enough. Looking at that indicator's structure looks like it could be close to a good anion.

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Some Chromium III compounds show a similar effect if seen under incandescent light or LED

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Would the dichromatic effect persist if the volume were uniform throughout? For instance, if the liquid were in a container that's, say, 20cm³, would the color still change if the light were traveling the same distance to get through the liquid to our point of perspective? I'm not sure if I'm asking this correctly, but my thinking is that different amounts (wavelengths? I'm not very good at the terminology...) of light being absorbed or making it through to our eyes/to the camera is causing a shift in the color. Does any of what I'm saying make any sense?

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Here I have 3 lasers: a *yellow* one a _skyblue_ one I lost my mind at that moment

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the effect shown by the fluid is iridescence. ir·i·des·cent adjective showing luminous colors that seem to change when seen from different angles.