Every one knows that the little insect called the cochineal, furnishes, when its body has been dried and reduced to powder, a colouring matter of a beautiful red, peculiar to itself.
It is when the females are pregnant that they contain the greatest amount of colouring matter.
This is a term, which, in a general sense, may be applied to any substance extracted from vegetables; but it is more particularly understood to relate to the extractive colouring matter of plants.
Being formed of transparent non-colouring matter, they may be said to be mere expansions, which vary in form and length according to the conditions of the ambient medium.
To them also is due the red or green layer of colouring matter found in ponds and tanks at certain seasons.
Sulphur or shell-lac, melted with sufficient plaster of Paris or colouring matterto give the desired shade.
The goods are either directly printed in colour, or receive their patterns by being run through a colouring matter or mordant, when the dye is only produced upon that portion of the ground previously prepared for it.
A colouring matter, which is united with a matter insoluble in ether, little soluble in concentrated alcohol, and very soluble in water: it appears to be volatile.
The herb-archil is preferable to the archil of Auvergne, from the greater bloom which it communicates to the colours, and from the larger quantity of colouring matter.
As a colouring matter, kermes is only about one-twelfth part as powerful as that substance.
The oxygen contained in that fluid, and destined for consumption by the tissues, is retained by the influence of alcohol in its combination with the haemoglobin or colouring matter of the red blood corpuscles.
That the use of any preservatives or colouring matter whatever in milk offered for sale in the United Kingdom be constituted an offence under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act.
This can only be done in those cases where the colour lake that is formed is somewhat soluble in dye-liquors, which usually have slightly acid properties; or where the affinity between the two bodies (colouring matter and (p.
The bath is kept up for further lots, and three-fourths the quantity of colouring matter, and about half soda and one fourth salt are used.
The bath is not exhausted of colouring matter, and by adding one-half of the above quantities of dye-stuff and salt may be used again for another lot of cotton.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colouring matter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
