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- noun (Chem.) Aniline red; an artificial coal-tar dyestuff, of a metallic green color superficially, resembling cantharides, but when dissolved forming a brilliant dark red. It consists of a hydrochloride or acetate of rosaniline. See
rosaniline .
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- noun A
dye (rosaniline hydrochloride or similar) usually a deep red ormagenta colour.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Because of the considerable infusion of the red fuchsine carries large vitalizing energy.
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In commerce three brands of aniline are distinguished -- aniline oil for blue, which is pure aniline; aniline oil for red, a mixture of equimolecular quantities of aniline and ortho - and para-toluidines; and aniline oil for safranine, which contains aniline and ortho-toluidine, and is obtained from the distillate (_échappés_) of the fuchsine fusion.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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She makes her presence as clearly felt among a million of her sex as does a grain of fuchsine in a hogshead of water.
The Darrow Enigma Melvin Linwood Severy
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= If the fibers are vegetable, cotton may be distinguished from linen by staining the fibers with fuchsine.
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While it is possible sometimes to detect cotton by rolling the suspected fabric between the thumb and finger, the better way is to stain the fabric with fuchsine.
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Another class of bodies also concerns our subject: the special sensitisers used by the photographer to modify the spectral distribution of sensibility of the haloid salts, _e. g._ eosine, fuchsine, cyanine.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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These included fuchsine a garish purple that faded to a dull grey over a period of decades.
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mollusque commented on the word fuchsine
Also spelled fuchsin.
February 21, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word fuchsine
"In 1859, French chemists created fuchsine, a crimson dye that some christened solferino or magenta, in celebration of the bloody defeat of the Austrian army by Garibaldi's republican forces in Italy."
Amy Butler Greenfield, A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire (New York: Harper Collins, 2005), 228.
October 6, 2017