Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A bleaching agent.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the property of removing color; bleaching.
  • noun A substance which bleaches or removes color.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A substance which removes color, or bleaches.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A substance that removes colour, or bleaches.

Etymologies

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Compare French décolorant, present participle.

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Examples

  • One special find this week was a chunk of raw glass, showing an unhomogeneous color, probably as a result of an insufficient or failed addition of decolorant in a reduced furnace atmosphere (e.g. manganese in the form of the mineral pyrolusite).

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Glass Studies 2003

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