Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of depriving of color; the process of blanching or bleaching. Also spelled decolorisation, decolourization, decolourisation.
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- noun the
removal ofcolor from something;bleaching
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Examples
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And so the decolorization of white violence in entertainment is achieved.
Singing Soprano, While Dissin' the Bass: America's White Thug Love & Ethnically Acceptable Violence 2007
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The sucrose is whitened by the technique of decolorization, in which granular carbon—a material like activated charcoal that can absorb undesirable molecules on its large surface area—is added to the centrifuged, redissolved sugar.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The sucrose is whitened by the technique of decolorization, in which granular carbon—a material like activated charcoal that can absorb undesirable molecules on its large surface area—is added to the centrifuged, redissolved sugar.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Different bacteria behave very differently to stains; some take them up rapidly, others slowly, some resist decolorization, others are easily decolorized.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The 100 mm. tube should never be used except in rare cases, when notwithstanding all the means used to effect the proper decolorization of the solution, it is still too dark to polarize in the 200 mm. tube.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Various
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The vesicles are of various sizes and shapes, and contain as a normal product a viscid, homogeneous, semifluid, slightly yellowish, colloid material; red corpuscles are found in it in various stages of disintegration and decolorization, the yellow tinge being probably due to the hemoglobin, which is thus set free from the colored corpuscles.
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Communications are also on record of local decolorization of the eyebrows and lashes in neuralgias of isolated branches of the trigeminus, especially of the supraorbital nerve.
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Communications are also on record of local decolorization of the eyebrows and lashes in neuralgias of isolated branches of the trigeminus, especially of the supraorbital nerve.
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The syrup is again treated sulfur dioxide for further decolorization and then is further concentrated under supersaturated with sugar.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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There are other refining processes that use calcium phosphate (instead of lime) to remove impurities from the sugar juice (and / or the sugar syrup) and treatment with activated carbon (rather than gaseous sulfur dioxide) for decolorization. bagasse, remaining after the crushing of the shredded sugar cane, are burned for fuel within the sugar refinery.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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