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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A direct cotton coaltar color of the diazo-sulphouic-acid type.
- noun A coal-tar color used for dyeing cotton, and fast to soap and acids. It is a dark-blue powder soluble in water, and is formed by the action of tetraza-ditolyl chlorid on beta-naphthol-sulphonate of potash.
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