Collocations withpigment
These are words often used in combination withpigment.
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anthocyanin pigment
Null mutants for structural genes are in general devoid of anthocyanin pigment in all plant parts whereas regulatory mutants show altered colour patterns relative to wild-type.
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black pigment
The black pigment of this element does not fade to brown.
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blue pigment
The cause was found to be the result of an organometallic blue pigment which caused an exothermic catalytic reaction with another additive in the foam.
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carotenoid pigment
The shells and flesh of crustaceans such as crabs, lobsters and shrimp contain a pink carotenoid pigment called astaxanthin.
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dark pigment
Even in the most extreme gregaria forms a few spots of ground-colour show through the dark pigment of the lateral band.
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green pigment
In this case, it appears to be the green pigment in the strawberry leaves that was visible on the mammogram.
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melanin pigment
This lack of generality stands contrary to the proposed role of melanin pigment in retinal development and thus militates against this mechanism.
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mineral pigment
The "katazome" method uses traditional organic and mineral pigments in a medium of soybean milk.
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natural pigment
It is best known as the source of the natural pigment annatto, produced from the fruit.
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photosynthetic pigment
Unraveling the electronic structure of individual photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes.
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pigment cell
Humans have only one class of pigment cell, the mammalian equivalent of melanophores, to generate skin, hair, and eye colour.
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pigment epithelium
However, the retina shrank only by about 1% relative to the pigment epithelium, so this does not seem to be the case.
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retinal pigment
The retinal pigment epithelium cytoplasm showed dense bodies and clumps of lipids.
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visual pigment
Photoreceptors recover from pigment adaptation after replacement 11-cis retinal, supplied by pigment epithelial cells, regenerate the visual pigment, and quench opsin's activity.
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white pigment
Now, 10 years after the first directive, white pigment makers are still split about how to deal with acid and metal waste.
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