Examples of 'mordant' in a sentence

Meaning of "mordant"

mordant (noun) - a substance, typically an inorganic oxide, that combines with a dye or stain and thereby fixes it in a material
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  • Having or showing a sharp or critical quality
  • Serving to fix a dye to a fibre.
  • Any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation.
  • Any corrosive substance used in etching.

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Chrome mordant dyes shall not be used.
It also finds use in wool dyeing as a mordant.
Mordant humor comes with the job.
Alum was an essential mordant in the textile industry.
Mordant would be the more accurate word.
I love this kind of quietly mordant writing.
The mordant was also utilized in two ways.
The pentahydrate of this salt is used as a mordant.
Chrome mordant dyeing is not allowed.
Ferrous acetate is used as a mordant by the dye industry.
Mordant exploration of racial discrimination in the world of sport.
It is used as a mordant and a dye in textiles.
A mordant is a liquid for making a dye bond to a material.
And cotton fabric mordant and so on.
Acid and mordant dyes and preparations based thereon.

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Each dye can have different reactions to each mordant.
Cationic dye mordant is a preferred additive.
Another method of applying gold leaf is called mordant gilding.
Mordant dyeing in ancient india.
These fine lines of mordant gilding did not require burnishing.
Teak elements have been cleaned and painted in an oak mordant.
Its source is probably a mordant used in the dyeing process.
Without forgetting to insert scenes with the mordant humor.
Anodyne is to mordant as soporific is to.
The north is like a mordant.
Chrome mordant dyeing.
Mordant and drugs.
It can be used as a mordant in dyeing.
This beautiful mordant greatly enhances the value of horny products.
It is used in the purification of waters and as a mordant of pigments in textiles.
Your mordant kisses.
Churchill might not have been so mordant in his viewpoint.
The applied mordant did not totally bind to the fibre.
He was looking for textile dyes that did not require a mordant step.
Chrome mordant dyes.
The mordant helps the dye to permanently bind to the fibers.
It is used as a mordant in dyeing.
Disperse dyeing was tested with and without tannin mordant.
Chrome mordant process.
The development of substantive dyes helped make mordant dyes obsolete.
In the industry as a mordant which to for a longer time the color tissues.
He is best known for his colourful characters and mordant style.
This mordant has also been used alone to increase the weight of silk.
That is used as a mordant.
The complex between the mordant and dye is formed on the fibre.
Alum is used as a mordant.
The novels feature a mordant emotional timbre and a fatalistic approach to street situations.
This latter point is particularly true with the mordant dyes.
The amount of the used metal mordant varies in the dyeing recipes.
As a mordant when performing a Gram stain.

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