Usage examples (19)

• If these precautions are observed, magenta can be distinguished from archil with certainty according to
• Take a little pinch of archil, and put some boiling-hot water upon it, add to it a very little lump of pear-lash.
• Dyers being well aware of this, are in the habit when mistakes occur of bringing up to shade with soluble dye-stuffs -- archil, indigo extract, and such like.
• As the coloring-matter of archil is not precipitated by baryta and magnesia, but changed to a purple, the baryta method, recommended by Pasteur, Balard, and Wurtz, and...