The Wars or Safflower is cultivated in considerable quantities around the city: an abundance is grown in the lands of the Gallas.
His principal agents were formerly the safflower (Carthamus tinctorius), turmeric and myrobalans.
The fact that the brilliant red dye of safflower was as a rule only used by Muhammadan dyers, gives some ground for the supposition that it may have been introduced by them to India.
Rose colour or pink, is given with safflower and lemon juice.
Upon the fineness of the talc, and the proportion of the safflower precipitate which it contains, depend the beauty and value of the cosmetic.
Yellow is given with the yellow colouring matter of safflower (carthamus,) which is readily extracted by water.
Safflower yields two colours--a valueless yellow which dissolves in cold water, and about five per cent of red, insoluble in water but dissolved by alkalies.
Safflower oil is extracted from the seeds of the Carthamus tinctorius, which, although indigenous to India and the East Indies, is extensively cultivated in Southern Russia (Saratowa) and German East Africa.
Annotta and safflower afford instances of the second mode of action above referred to, by which substances operate as mordants.
It is a fine crimson dye, forming shades similar to safflower on silk, but, owing to the bad effects of acids, not much used.
For flame colour the silk should receive a slight shade with annotta before putting it into the safflower bath.
These frauds may be detected by the inferiority of the colour, and by soaking the leaves in water, when the stigmas of the Crocus sativus may be readily distinguished from the florets of safflower and the petals of marigolds.
Safflower was shown in the Great Exhibition from Celebes, Assam, the vicinity of Calcutta, Dacca, the states of Rajpootana, and other places.
The Chinese safflower is considered the best, and that from Bombay is least esteemed.
The price ofsafflower varies from £1 to £8 per cwt.
The "cake saffron" of the shops consists entirely of safflowerand mucilage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "safflower" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
