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An obsolete pigment of a deep red color that was for centuries claimed to literally be collected from dead dragons in far off China. According to Pliny the ‘blood’ was collected following mortal combat between Elephants and Dragons, both dying in the battle, the ‘blood’ issuing from the Dragon as it is crushed to death by the weight of the dying Elephant. The truth was far less exciting, it was actually the gum from an Asiatic tree. The pigment was not permanent and usage died out as the world was explored and the romantic story proved to be a fallacy.
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