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褐色 vs 茶色

#1
I was playing around with kanji today and discovered that the kanji listed in RTK for brown (褐), isnt the kanji for the word for brown that I know (ちゃいろ).

褐色 is apparently read as かっしょく and 茶色 is ちゃいろ, the one I am familiar with.

What is the difference between the 2 words?
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#2
褐色
茶色

to be exact, 茶色 is light brown.
Edited: 2014-01-26, 5:44 pm
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