Describing something that has color from an outside source rather than from its own chemical composition.
From allo- (other) + chromatic (from Greek chroma, color). Used in mineralogy to distinguish minerals colored by impurities from those colored intrinsically.
A ruby and a sapphire are actually the same mineral (corundum), but tiny amounts of different elements make them different colors—the mineral itself is just colorless underneath!
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