Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bleaching agent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the property of removing color; bleaching.
- noun A substance which bleaches or removes color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A substance which removes color, or bleaches.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
substance that removes colour, orbleaches .
Etymologies
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Compare French décolorant, present participle.
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Examples
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One special find this week was a chunk of raw glass, showing an unhomogeneous color, probably as a result of an insufficient or failed addition of decolorant in a reduced furnace atmosphere (e.g. manganese in the form of the mineral pyrolusite).
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