Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An artificial dyestuff, the sodium salt of disulphonated phenyl-osazone-dioxytartaric acid. It produces a bright-yellow color on wool, and may also be used on mordanted cotton.
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Examples
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Neither must we suppose that facility of application necessarily interferes with its fastness to light, for some of our fastest coal tar colors on wool, e.g., diamine fast red, tartrazin, etc., are applied in the simplest possible manner.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 Various
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It is interesting to note the decided fugitive character, on silk, of tartrazin, aurantia, orange crystal, etc., compared with their great fastness on wool.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 Various
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