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Example sentences for "coloring matter"

  • Cotton and linen fibers, apart from the small amount of coloring matter present in them, contain nothing but carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, while animal fibers contain in addition to these elements some compounds of nitrogen.

  • We have seen that it is practically impossible to color cotton and linen in a simple manner with any degree of permanency, because of the lack of chemical action between vegetable fibers and coloring matter.

  • The explanation of the bleaching power of chlorine is that the chlorine combines with the hydrogen of the water and sets oxygen free; the uncombined free oxygen oxidizes the coloring matter in the cloth and destroys it.

  • The differences in the tint, as brunette, fair, and blond, are due mainly to the amount of coloring matter in these pigment cells.

  • The medulla of the hair contains the pigment granules or coloring matter, which may be of any shade between a light yellow and an intense black.

  • The bile contains a great deal of coloring matter, and its chief ingiedients are two salts of soda, sodium taurocholate and glycocholate.

  • The deeper and more active layer of the epidermis, the mucosum, is made up of cells some of which contain minute granules of pigment, or coloring matter, that give color to the skin.

  • As in the two forms, blood and the elements of blood escape into the urine, albumin is always present, so that there is albuminuria with blood-coloring matter superadded.

  • Dyeing) Defn: The process of giving an orange color to goods formed of animal tissue, as silk or wool, not by coloring matter, but by producing a certain change in the fiber by the action of dilute nitric acid.

  • The white, albuminous mass remaining after washing lean beef or other meat with water until all coloring matter is removed; the fibrous portion of the muscle tissue; flesh fibrin.

  • The fugitive character of many of the coal tar colors is, in my opinion, rendered more marked, because, owing to their intense coloring power, there is often such an infinitesimal amount of coloring matter on the dyed fiber.

  • A coloring matter found in many simple Anthozoa and some hydroids.

  • The dashing or sprinkling of coloring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc.

  • A coloring matter produced by the action of a mixture of strong nitric and sulphuric acids on phenylic alcohol.

  • That of American manufacture is not of such brilliant and permanent colors, but more regard is paid to health in the selection of coloring matter.

  • The ailments of colorers of wall paper arise principally from the coloring matter, much of which is very poisonous.

  • In such an event, coloring matter is given with each pound of oleomargarine that is sold.

  • At this stage, coloring matter is added, after which the milk is prepared for setting by bringing it to a certain temperature.

  • The patient denied having taken any coloring matter or chemicals to influence the color of her perspiration, and no remedy relieved her cardiac or rheumatic symptoms.

  • The principal symptom is hematogenous icterus with cyanosis,--the urine contains blood and blood-coloring matter.

  • A contrivance for removing superfluous ink or coloring matter from a roller.

  • Of these lichens, the first, which is the richest in coloring matter, grows as a parasite upon trees; all the remainder upon rocks.

  • A coloring matter is prepared from the dried fruit of the Rottlera tinctoria, by the natives of the East, to dye orange, which is a brilliant and tolerably permanent dye.

  • This operation is to be repeated frequently; and as the work advances, the quantity of coloring matter is to be diminished, until finally it is spread over the face plate in a thin film, which only dims the brightness of the plate.

  • This was undoubtedly the case in dyeing trials performed as tests, as these were conducted purposely with a very small proportion of coloring matter in order to admit of a better comparison of the resulting depth of shades.

  • Alum in this case is called a mordant, which is a substance that will impregnate the cloth with something which will hold the coloring matter.

  • Prepare a solution of coloring matter by dissolving a half ounce of logwood in a quart of water.

  • Prepare a solution of coloring matter by dissolving a half ounce of diamond dye (green or red) in a quart of water.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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