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n. - A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.

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  • To bleach that dye out I'll have to go over his face with a needle, pore by pore, and hammer in the indigotin disulphonic.
  • The woad plant contains less indigotin, the coloring material within the source, and it requires higher heats to create color in textiles.
  • Specially worthy of notice are the discoveries of artificial alizarin, in 1868, by Graebe and Liebermann, and of indigotin, in 1878, by Adolf
  • The stamps are usually covered with a black ink made of sulphate of iron, and this is fixed by myrobalans; the Nilgars usually dye a plain blue with indigotin.
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