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  • The generic name was compounded from the Greek leuco, "white", and krinon, "lily".

    Rich Wolf: Where Do All the Flowers Grow? Rich Wolf 2010

  • The generic name was compounded from the Greek leuco, "white", and krinon, "lily".

    Rich Wolf: Where Do All the Flowers Grow? Rich Wolf 2010

  • The reduction to the leuco phase proceeded without the addition of heat.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Web Link The cloth is added to a pale white-green colored (leuco) solution.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Eighteenth-century manuals of practice often classify woad and indigo among direct dyes because they require no mordant or assistants, but their chemistry demanded a dyeing process different from typical direct methods. 8 reference Modern descriptions classify them as leuco dyes, in which the normally insoluble and nonadherent coloring material is made soluble by the removal of oxygen, a reduction process.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Dr. Perper, using Luminol and leuco crystal violet, investigators found a lot of blood there in the home.

    CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2007 2007

  • Dystar's US Patent 5,586,992 "the '992 patent" improved upon the prior art by eliminating steps two and three of the traditional process: stabilizing the leuco indigo solution into a paste or powder form, and then reconstituting the solution in a preparation tank.

    The Federal Circuit Tries to Set the Record Straight on Obviousness Peter Zura 2006

  • Dystar's US Patent 5,586,992 "the '992 patent" improved upon the prior art by eliminating steps two and three of the traditional process: stabilizing the leuco indigo solution into a paste or powder form, and then reconstituting the solution in a preparation tank.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Peter Zura 2006

  • The principal observation of leuco-agglutination and thrombo-agglutination was made in 1952.

    Jean Dausset - Biography 1992

  • I answer, I don't know -- any more than I know why sanguineous people are hot-tempered, and leuco-phlegmatic ones are more brooding in their wrath.

    Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General Charles James Lever 1839

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