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Colour Index (medicine) and Dinka (sh)


Colour Index (medicine)


Colour Index


A publication concerned with the chemistry of dyes, with each listed dye identified by a five-digit Colour Index number, e.g., methylene blue is Colour Index 52015.


Dinka (sh)




Cattle-herding people of the Nile basin in southern Sudan.

They speak an eastern Sudanic language of the Nilo-Saharan family and are closely related to the Nuer. Numbering about four million, they are divided into independent groups of 1,000-30,000 persons. Leadership is provided by priest-chiefs. In recent years they have been involved in civil war. See also Nilot.