Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various blue dyes, used to sensitize photographic emulsions to a greater range of light.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In chem., a beautiful blue dye, chinoline blue, prepared by acting on a mixture of chinoline and lepidine with amyl iodide. Unfortunately it does not resist the action of light, and hence has lost its importance as a dyestuff, but, it is used in making orthochromatic plates for photography.
- noun The blue coloring matter of certain flowers, as the corn-flower, violet, and species of iris.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of a family of
synthetic blue dyes used inphotography etc.
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Examples
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Among the semi-stable, must be classed cyanine or Leitch's blue, smalt, and Prussian blue.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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However that may be, in these days both names signify cobalt compounds, coeruleum being a stannate of cobalt, and cyanine a mixture of cobalt and Prussian blue.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Unlike the former, cyanine, being composed of two old colours, can lay no claim to originality.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Sulphon cyanine works well with other dye-stuffs, and gives shades which are fast to milling.
The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics Franklin Beech
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Whether these remarks are applicable to cyanine or not is a question for artists to decide: in our opinion, with so many semi-stable original pigments, the introduction of semi-stable compounds is to be deprecated.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Within the last few years, a compound similar to cyanine has appeared, under the name of _Leitch's Blue_.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Hence the peculiar properties of cyanine remain unchanged only so long as the Prussian blue itself, the pigment losing its colour by degrees on exposure to air and light, and gradually assuming the tint of the paler but more permanent cobalt.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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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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_ -- The blue coloring matter of flowers we propose to call cyanine.
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851
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Xanthine, in combination with cyanine, modified by the various juices of plants, communicates in variable proportions orange-yellow, scarlet-red, and red colors to flowers.
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851
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