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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of decolorize.

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Examples

  • White (sometimes called decolorized, colorless or yodo blanco) iodine is what to use.

    Hints From Heloise 2010

  • It is also called decolorized or "white" iodine and won't stain the skin the way brown tincture of iodine does.

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • Here's the routine to help get stronger nails: Using a cotton swab or an old, clean nail-polish brush, wipe the decolorized iodine on JUST the tips of your nails (not the entire nail).

    Hints From Heloise 2010

  • Atta decolorized to remove the effect of color which you can view here if you want.

    Discuss. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Even quirky Alan Arkin gets decolorized as Cliff's mechanic mentor.

    Hollywood Gets Seriously Silly 2008

  • When we eat beets, the red pigment is usually decolorized by high stomach acidity and reaction with iron in the large intestine, but people sometimes excrete the intact pigment, a startling but harmless event.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Making Corn Syrups To make corn syrups, manufacturers extract starch granules from the kernels of common dent corn p. 477, and then treat them with acid and/or with microbial or malt enzymes to develop a sweet syrup that is then clarified, decolorized, and evaporated to the desired concentration.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • When we eat beets, the red pigment is usually decolorized by high stomach acidity and reaction with iron in the large intestine, but people sometimes excrete the intact pigment, a startling but harmless event.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Making Corn Syrups To make corn syrups, manufacturers extract starch granules from the kernels of common dent corn p. 477, and then treat them with acid and/or with microbial or malt enzymes to develop a sweet syrup that is then clarified, decolorized, and evaporated to the desired concentration.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Then I tasted it-it was like 7-Up and Dr. Pepper and Pepsi and tap water all sort of randomly mixed and decolorized.

    Microserfs Coupland, Douglas 1995

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