dye-stuff

This, which is used as a dye-stuff, is found nowhere in the dry country to the south.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Calumba-root, which is found in abundance in some parts farther down the river, is bought by the Americans, it is said, to use as a dye-stuff.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

An example: Naphthalene is an important initial material in dye-stuff industry, among others.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1981 - Presentation Speech 1981

In 1929 a new research institute for pathological anatomy and bacteriology was built by the I.G. Farbenindustrie and there, in 1932, Domagk made the discovery for which his name is so well known, the discovery that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1939, namely, the fact that a red dye-stuff, to which the name «prontosil rubrum» was given, protected mice and rabbits against lethal doses of staphylococci and haemolytic streptococci.

Gerhard Domagk - Biography 1965

If the wool takes up the dye-stuff easily (as is frequently the case with goods manufactured from shoddy), and are therefore dyed too dark a shade, then dye-stuffs have to be used which principally dye the cotton, and a too high temperature should be avoided.

The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student Franklin Beech

By using 1 lb. of the dye-stuff in the same way a light red shade is got.

The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student Franklin Beech

The moment we entered, Aunt Huldah stretched out her hand for the dye-stuff.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

Prolonged boiling is only necessary very rarely, and generally only if the goods to be dyed are difficult to penetrate, or contain qualities of wool which only with difficulty take up the dye-stuff.

The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student Franklin Beech

The quantity used varies according to circumstances; the character of the shades that are to be dyed, the dye-stuff used, the quality and character of the tannin matter used.

The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student Franklin Beech

The dye-stuff Dinitroso-resorcine or Solid green O is used along with iron mordants for producing fast greens and with chrome mordants for producing browns to a limited extent in cotton dyeing.

The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student Franklin Beech