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Indigo dye is an organic compound with a distinctive blue color (see indigo). Historically indigo was a natural dye extracted from plants and this process was important economically because blue dyes were once rare. Nearly all indigo dye produced today – several thousand tons each year – is synthetic. It is the blue of blue jeans.

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