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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mordant .
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Examples
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For example: -- Cochineal, if mordanted with alum, will give a crimson colour; with iron, purple; with tin, scarlet; and with chrome or copper, purple.
Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer Ethel M. Mairet
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Wool mordanted with 4 per cent of ferrous sulphate and 10 per cent tartar and dyed in a separate bath with weld with 8 per cent chalk, takes a good olive yellow. 8 per cent of alum is often used for mordant for weld.
Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer Ethel M. Mairet
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Its alcoholic solution dyes silk green, and also woollen and cotton when mordanted with albumen.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Logwood, also, if mordanted with alum, gives a mauve colour; if mordanted with chrome, it gives a blue.
Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer Ethel M. Mairet
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To mordanted calico the shades imparted were dull and heavy, but very solid.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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It forms brown crystals which are readily soluble in hot water, and it dyes mordanted cotton a dark brown.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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A few years ago I recommended carefully conducted dyeing trials on woolen cloth mordanted with bichromate of potash as the best and simplest mode adapted to such cases, and my subsequent experience enables me to confirm that observation to the fullest extent.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 Various
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Goods, mordanted with alumina and dyed with alizarin for reds up to saturation, never reach the brown tone given by fleur or garancin.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 Various
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Mr. Thomson had further alluded to the color obtained with logwood or logwood extract and wool mordanted with bichromate of potash, and seemed to be under the impression that the color thus obtained was not black, but blue.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 Various
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The bright yellow Lichen, growing on rocks and walls, and old roofs, dyes a fine plum colour, if the wool is mordanted first with Bichromate of Potash.
Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer Ethel M. Mairet
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