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The part of optics that deals with the properties of colors. ( plural but singular in construction)

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  • Sooner or later they would come, and the chromatics would die.
  • It began on a high note, descending in weird chromatics to the lowest tone the human ear could resolve.
  • Nor does it have to go all the way to the edges, because plenty of paintings lack full-intensity chromatics.
  • Instead of pulling away from each other, the products of cell division (the sister chromatics) usually remain side by side.
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