tallakahath

I suspect this has been answered before, but I'm having trouble finding the right combination of search terms... Awakening uses two sources: color, and breaths. The breaths are (mostly) recovered (looking at the discussion here), but the colors are not. So, what happens in the following circumstance: I hand an awakener a carrot, a vial of copper(II) sulfate in water, and a dead butterfly of the genus morpho. The awakener drains the color from the carrot to fuel an awakening. The color in the carrot is provided by carotenes, such as beta carotene, via the electronic properties of the long chain of conjugated pi-bonds along the length of the molecule. To change the color would require altering or destroying the chemical structure of the carotenes, as to push the absorption spectrum of the material outside of the human-visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. I take the now-drained carrot and put it through a variety of chemical tests (GCMS, Vibrational Spectroscopy, IR spectroscopy, C13 and D NMR), what do I get? Do I see "carotene" that (for unknown reasons) doesn't absorb the right colors? Do the spectroscopic results have a weird "dead zone" at some (set of) wavelength(s)? The awakener drains the color from the copper(II) sulfate. The color is provided by the available discrete energy levels of the electrons of the copper(II) ions, changing (or removing) the color would require reducing (or further oxidizing) the copper. If the copper is reduced, it would precipitate out of solution as metallic copper, or at least go to copper(I). I filter and dry the solution, and analyze the resulting powder/pellet, what do I see? The awakener drains the color from the dead butterfly. The brilliant blue color of the butterfly is provided not by chemistry, but by structure: the scales of morpho butterflies are structured as to cause interference between different wavelengths/phases of incident light, resulting in a perceived blue hue (at most viewing angles). I take the drained butterfly and observe it under an electron microscope and observe the microstructure: what do I see? Ancillary questions: can IR or UV colors be used to fuel awakening, can someone with Tetrachromacy awaken using additional colors, and, does being colorblind or even entirely blind impact one's ability to use awakening (do you need to be aware of the color to use it, if not, then why limit the colors used to "visible to the human eye" if that isn't a consistently applied rule?)?