Leuco

"Leuco" means white, therefore Leucoplasts (AKA Amyloplasts) are white plastids that store starch.

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He chose not to send her the bloody print he'd highlighted with the Leuco Crystal Violet and instead sent her one from the landing that Grissom had obtained with the electrostatic print lifter.

Double Dealer: Crime Scene Investigation Max Allan Collins 2002

He chose not to send her the bloody print he'd highlighted with the Leuco Crystal Violet and instead sent her one from the landing that Grissom had obtained with the electrostatic print lifter.

Double Dealer: Crime Scene Investigation Max Allan Collins 2002

He chose not to send her the bloody print he'd highlighted with the Leuco Crystal Violet and instead sent her one from the landing that Grissom had obtained with the electrostatic print lifter.

Double Dealer: Crime Scene Investigation Max Allan Collins 2002

He supposes, in a word, that for every colored substance existing in orchil and litmus, there is a corresponding white one, producible by the action of sulphuretted hydrogen, &c.; and, in proof of this theory, he mentions having obtained from Azolitmine and Betaorceine colorless bodies, to which he gave the respective names of Leuco-litmine and Leuco-orceine.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

Leuco dyes and other thermochromic applications, of course, have many uses beyond novelty T-shirts.

mental_floss Blog Matt Soniak 2010

Leuco dyes are used on Duracell batteries along a resistive strip to indicate their heating and gauge the amount of current flowing through it.

mental_floss Blog Matt Soniak 2010

Dialogues with Leuco, "a repository of human wisdom and the anguish that earns it."

PoetryFoundation.org 2009

Dialogues with Leuco in 1965, that most critics regard as Pavese's masterpiece.

PoetryFoundation.org 2009

Dialogues with Leuco, "a repository of human wisdom and the anguish that earns it."

PoetryFoundation.org 2009