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Can you guess the shades of the colour yellow from these clues?
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Last updated: March 13, 2020
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This dessert (or sauce) can be made from milk, eggs and vanilla.
Custard
A brownish-yellow earth pigment can be found in prehistoric cave art.
Ochre or Ocher
A small finch which is yellow in the wild (but bred to be various colours).
Canary
This yellow-green colour means 'lemon' in French
Citron
A spring flower, with a rosette of very wrinkled leaves (Primula vulgaris).
Primrose
This cheerful yellow might remind you of the photons streaming from our star.
Sunshine
Donovan sang about this rhyming colour in the 1960s.
Mellow
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This yellow used to give lovely colours to ceramics and glass, but it's radioactive.
Uranium
This type of yellow is an artists' pigment (and compound of a heavy metal).
Cadmium or Cobalt
This dye is obtained from the flowers of crocuses.
Saffron
Derived from a tree resin, this dyes Buddhist monk's robes their distinctive hue.
Gamboge
Found in meadows, a flower in the Ranunculaceae family.
Buttercup
This acid bright yellow matches the element also known as brimstone.
Sulphur or Sulfur
This pale yellow is the same colour as the cut dry stalks of cereal plants.
Straw
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