in German: Farbenblindheit f; Daltonismus m; Rotgrünblindheit f in Dutch: KleurenblindheidWe found no French translation for 'daltonism' in our English to French Dictionary.
Daltonism = colour blindness, esp. the confusion of red and green [ETYMOLOGY: 19th Century: from French daltonisme, after J. Dalton] daltonic; adjective
Remember Dalton's law:
the principle that the pressure exerted by a mixture of gases in a fixed volume is equal to the sum of the pressures that each gas would exert if it occupied the whole volume. Also called: Dalton's law of partial pressures
Dalton John. 1766--1844, English chemist and physicist, who formulated the modern form of the atomic theory and the law of partial pressures for gases. He also gave the first accurate description of colour blindness, from which he suffered.
Colour Blinds can detect colours, but with several deficiencies in seeing the colours.
Only 8% from population are daltons, most of them are men and only 1% are momen.
Is that why some members have problems with colours in the postings, specially with green?
I myself, I must say I have more problems with the effects of Dalton's law, particularly this bit: the sum of the pressures that each gas would exert if it occupied the whole volume...
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Which one can your read?
In case you can read the far most right picure, you might be colourblind....
The commonest forms of congenital defective color vision, the red-green deficiencies, are due to "sex-linked X chromosomes" and "simple recessive hereditary traits". Men are mainly affected because women have two X chromosomes and men have only one X and a Y chromosome. If a man's one X chromosome is color defective he will be color deficient, where as , a woman must inherit two color defective X chromosomes to be color deficient. For a woman to be color deficient, her father must be colorblind and her mother colorblind or be a carrier.
All possible patterns of inheritance of any one of these color defects are shown here:
