indigo-carmine love

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  • He found that such fugitive colors as orchil, safflower, and indigo-carmine fade very rapidly in moist air, less rapidly in dry air, and that they experience little or no change in hydrogen or in a vacuum.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 Various

  • A woaded color, for example, is only fast in respect of the vat indigo which it contains, and yet how frequent is the custom to unite with the indigo such dyes as barwood, orchil, and indigo-carmine, the fugitive character of which I have pointed out.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 Various

  • The essential part of the paste required is the sulpho-indigodate of sodium, now commonly called indigo-carmine.

    Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

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