{"id":12821,"date":"2024-06-25T16:57:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T16:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=12821"},"modified":"2024-06-25T16:57:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T16:57:02","slug":"people-baffled-after-realizing-the-statue-of-liberty-isnt-really-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=12821","title":{"rendered":"People baffled after realizing the Statue of Liberty isn\u2019t really green"},"content":{"rendered":"

The color of the Big Apple icon has changed over time<\/h2>\n

The Statue of Liberty has guarded New York for almost 140 years, but people are only just realizing she was a diversely different color at her unveiling ceremony.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arguably\u00a0New York City<\/a>\u2019s, and maybe even one of the world\u2019s, most iconic landmarks is the Statue of Liberty – a neoclassical sculpture depicting the Roman goddess of liberty.<\/p>\n

The 151.1-foot effigy was gifted to the Big Apple from the people of\u00a0France<\/a>\u00a0and was unveiled by former New York governor, President Grover Cleveland, on October 28, 1886.<\/p>\n

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The Statue of Liberty was unveiled in 1886. (Nicolas Economou\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Set on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, the colossal sculpture is globally known for its bold, blue-green coloring and remains a bustling tourist hub to this day.<\/p>\n

However, not many\u00a0US citizens<\/a>\u00a0realize the symbol of freedom and inspiration was initially copper-colored and acquired its unique blue-green tinge due to\u00a0chemistry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Twenty years after the Statue of Liberty was unveiled, the copper icon had become green as a result of the oxidization covering it with a green patina.<\/p>\n

According to<\/a>\u00a0IFL Science, the material first reacted with the oxygen in the air, forcing the metal to give up electrons.<\/p>\n

This process eventually led to mineral cuprite, which turned the Statue of Liberty a pinkish red before black tenorite was formed.<\/p>\n

Water in the atmosphere then mixed with copper oxides and chlorine from the harbor spray, thus causing the landmark to become the bold green-blue we know today.<\/p>\n

While the Statue of Liberty has been restored on three separate occasions, her natural copper coloring has never been re-established – a fact\u00a0some Americans want to change<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The sculpture’s copper look has never been restored. (Islam Dogru\/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Blogger Scott Alexander previously claimed that if he ever became US president, he would bring back the copper and restore the statue every year.<\/p>\n

“The Statue of Liberty is made of copper, and was originally a shiny orange-gold color. Over the years, it has tarnished to its current faded-green,” he wrote on his platform, Astral Codex Ten.<\/p>\n

“This is a little too on the nose as a metaphor for American society. As part of a general agenda of restoring liberty nationwide, I would order the Statue of Liberty cleaned until it is back to its original shining-gold state, and restored yearly thereafter.”<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, one X user user wrote: \u201cThe Statue of Liberty is made of copper, but due to oxidation, it turns into green.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point, the green IS her color,\u201d typed a\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0user after finding out the statue\u2019s true design. \u201cTake the\u00a0money<\/a>\u00a0they\u2019d use for that project and put it into something that actually matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI always wonder what it looked like when it was part way through the oxidation process,\u201d commented a third. \u201cI bet there was a period of time it looked awful and possibly terrifying before it turned completely green.\u201d<\/p>\n

While someone else penned: “I thought the current green color was its original color lmao.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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