synthetic dye

collocation in English

meaningsofsyntheticanddye

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synthetic
adjective
uk
/sɪnˈθet.ɪk/us
/sɪnˈθet̬.ɪk/
Synthetic products are made from artificial substances, often copying a ...
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dye
noun[C or U]
uk
/daɪ/us
/daɪ/
a substance used to change the colour ...
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(Definition ofsyntheticanddyefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Rather than give up caustic soda andsyntheticdye, dyers ignored the bans and continued to use both items surreptitiously.
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In addition to allowing dyers to circumvent the obstacles to obtaining quality ingredients, caustic soda andsyntheticdyehelped them to increase the volume of production.
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Brighter still are the crimson and carmine, both of which, before the invention ofsyntheticdye, were obtained from the dried body of the scarlet grain insect, al-qirmiz.
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This research on naphthalene gave much impetus to thesyntheticdyeindustry.
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Fuchsine was anothersyntheticdyemade shortly after mauveine.
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There is also asyntheticdyethat has been named amaranth for its similarity in color to the natural amaranth pigments known as betalains.
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Mauve became a popular fashion color after the invention of thesyntheticdyein 1856.
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He scaled up production of the new mauveine, and commercialized it as the world's firstsyntheticdye.
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Most other classes ofsyntheticdye, other than vat and surface dyes, are also applied in this way.
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The most effective synthetic dyes, double compounds of alizarin blue and indophenol blue, were both almost completely insoluble in the weakly alkaline body fluids.
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The most far-reaching initiative was the incorporation of new technologies, caustic soda and synthetic dyes, which had a dramatic impact on the dyeing industry.
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Later it was discovered by others that he had formed picric acid, which eventually was used as the firstsyntheticdye, an explosive and an antiseptic treatment for burns.
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Synthetic dyes were subsequently banned in 1933.
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Bchamp did pioneering work in industrial chemistry, developing an efficient process to produce aniline dye which was central to the development of thesyntheticdyeindustry.
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Some of the colours in the proposed permitted list are of natural origin, some are synthetic dyes derived mainly from coal tar.
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I understand, however, that that body are not mainly makers of synthetic dyes.
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Economically, the state lost one of its main crops, indigo, to synthetic dyes.
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Woad was replaced by true indigo as trade routes opened up, and both are now largely replaced by synthetic dyes.
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The discovery of man-made synthetic dyes in the mid-19th century triggered a long decline in the large-scale market for natural dyes.
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Despite this, he introduced production-line techniques, and had no problem with using machine-produced yarns with synthetic dyes.
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