archil
Americannoun
noun
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The British came for the cheap labour, goats, donkeys, salt, turtles, amber and archil, a special ink that was used in British clothes manufacturing.
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2024
If a wine colored with archil and one colored with cudbear are treated treated according to Romei's method, the former gives, with basic lead acetate, a blue, and the latter a fine violet precipitate.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
The lower part from a was filled with water tinged blue, or rather purple, with the juice of turnsole, or archil.
From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Priestley, Joseph
If the wine is colored with archil, on prolonged heating, after the addition of ammonia, it is decolorized.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
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 the magnesia test, are useless.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
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