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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An unsized white paper impregnated with litmus and used as a pH or acid-base indicator.
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- noun
Paper containing awater-soluble mixture of different dyes extracted from certainlichens . The resulting piece of paper is used to test materials foracidity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun unsized paper treated with litmus for use as an acid-base indicator
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