Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A coal-tar color related to anthracene made by fusing beta-amino-anthraquinone with caustic potash. It dyes cotton and other vegetable fibers in a hyposulphite reduction-vat and gives very fast blues. When combined with flavanthrene it gives one of the fastest greens known.
Wiktionary
- n. organic chemistry Any of a specific class of anthraquinone vat dyes
Etymologies
- From indigo + anthraquinone (Wiktionary)
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