coloring-matter

The seed of the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the root, mixed with salt, produces a beautiful yellow coloring-matter.

Les Miserables 2008

Their want of mental coloring-matter makes them sensitive to those impressions which stronger minds neglect or never feel at all.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

Let the coloring-matter represent the magnetism in the body charged, and we have the magnet illustrated in its polarization: the deep-red end is the positive pole, and the white or faintly-colored end is the negative pole.

A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication Daniel Clark

These cells do not contain either starch or the green coloring-matter, called chlorophyll, which exists in other plants.

Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin

This was to be a fine quality of flint-glass, and to it might be added coloring-matter of any desired tint; but in the choice and proportion of this lay one of the principal secrets of the art.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

As the coloring-matter of archil is not precipitated by baryta and magnesia, but changed to a purple, the baryta method, recommended by Pasteur, Balard, and Wurtz, and the magnesia test, are useless.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various

It was caused by diatomaceae, minute algae, which under the microscope revealed delicate threads gathered in tiny bundles, and containing rings, like blood-disks, of that curious coloring-matter in tiny tubes.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various

` The cuttlefish 'has a remarkable qualify in this respect; but the coloring-matter which it produces is not used in the manufacture of ink.

Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

To other eyes the cold spotless thinly furnished interior might have suggested the shuttered mind of a maiden-lady who associates fresh air and sunlight with dust and discoloration; but it is the eye which supplies the coloring-matter, and Paulina's brimmed with the richest hues.

"The Angel at the Grave." 1901

To other eyes the cold spotless thinly-furnished interior might have suggested the shuttered mind of a maiden-lady who associates fresh air and sunlight with dust and discoloration; but it is the eye which supplies the coloring-matter, and Paulina's brimmed with the richest hues.

Crucial Instances Edith Wharton 1899