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mordant::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | colouring material, color, coloring material, colour |
| Has types | tartar emetic, antimony potassium tartrate, chrome alum, sodium bichromate, sodium dichromate |
Examples of mordant
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Moore has a rich imagination, a passion for detail and a mordant sense of humor.
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Housewives is already a critics'darling for its mordant humor and terrific cast.
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Robson Green is the mordant inspector sleuthing the U.K.'s most heinous crimes.
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Both frolicsome and mordant, Fo's work is beginning to find American audiences.
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Chrome or mordant dyes produced a muted but very fast color range for woollens.
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She became a deft, relentlessly mordant writer of both fiction and nonfiction.
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Her paintings tell mordant, oblique tales, populated with odd, large-faced figures.
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Ghostly cameos provide mordant fun and glimpses of lesser-known historical figures.
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O, was used as an astringent and a dyeing mordant in ancient Greece and Rome.
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- A substance used to treat leather or other materials before dyeing; aids in dyeing process
- Black: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
- Caustic: of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
- A mordant is a substance used to set dyes on fabrics or tissue sections by forming a coordination complex with the dye which then attaches to the fabric or tissue. It may be used for dyeing fabrics, or for intensifying stains in cell or tissue preparations. ...
- Any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation; vt To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant; biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe
- (mordantly) In a mordant manner
- (Mordanting) Pre-treating leather with any substance save acid or alkali which substantially alters its affinity for dyestuffs. (1)
- Mordants are after-fixing chemicals essential to impart some degree of colour fastness performance to most natural dyes and some synthetic ones. They are typically metal salts and therefore decidedly environmentally unfriendly. Some are better than others.
- An additive that makes dyes more stable and allows the dyes to penetrate the wool.
