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  • noun Plural form of aniline.

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Examples

  • Their experiments, however, date back many years ago, a few of them before the time of the use of the "anilines" for added color.

    Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

  • Preceding the discovery of the "anilines," as already related, other substances had been employed for "added" color in the admixture of ink, principally madder, Brazil wood, indigo, and logwood.

    Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

  • FIFTY years ago and long before the employment of the fugitive "anilines" for ink uses, and "wood pulp" as a material for paper, two French chemists, Chevallier and Lassiagne, published in the Journal de Chimie Médical, an article "On the Means to be Employed for Detecting and Rendering Perceptible Fraudulent Alterations in Public and Private Documents," which as translated is valuable enough to quote in full:

    Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

  • So extended in number are the "anilines" (they run into the thousands) that they include every shade of black and all possible tints or hues of the colors of the rainbow.

    Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

  • The origin and history of the "anilines" are known.

    Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

  • They generally now use micronized pigments rather than the more vulnerable synthetic anilines.

    Lightfastness and Dyes James Gurney 2010

  • They generally now use micronized pigments rather than the more vulnerable synthetic anilines.

    Archive 2010-04-01 James Gurney 2010

  • They mainly paint with acrylics, but do use anilines upon request.

    Family Roots: The Soteno Trees Of Life 2007

  • The sculptures are fired in either a gas or a wood-burning kiln and painted with anilines, acrylics or at times, enamel.

    Family Roots: The Soteno Trees Of Life 2007

  • They mainly paint with acrylics, but do use anilines upon request.

    Family Roots: The Soteno Trees Of Life 2007

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