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Example sentences for "mordant"

Lexicographically close words:
morbum; morbus; morceau; morceaux; morcha; mordanted; mordanting; mordants; mordre; more
  1. The mordant is to be applied to the hair first; when dry, the silver solution.

  2. Great care must be taken that the sulphuret is fresh made, or at least, well preserved in closed bottles, otherwise, instead of the mordant acting to make to make the hair black, it will tend to impart a yellow hue.

  3. We seem far from the sombre and mordant author of the "Maximes," but a complete apprehension of the character of La Rochefoucauld requires the story of his adventures to be at least briefly indicated.

  4. There is still another method of applying Mordant Colours in wool-dyeing, in which the dyestuff and the mordant are applied simultaneously from the beginning; it is known as the "single-bath method.

  5. The mordant most largely employed for wool is bichromate of potash, since, besides being simply applied, and leaving the wool with a soft feel, it yields with the various mordant-dyestuffs a large variety of fast colours.

  6. The question of the mordant-dyeing property of certain colouring matters containing (OH) and (COOH) groups has already been explained under the head of Artificial Mordant Colours.

  7. Galloflavin is used in wool and silk dyeing on chromium mordant as a substitute for fustic and other yellow dyewoods, to furnish the yellow part of compound shades.

  8. On wool the mordant is bichromate of potash; on cotton and silk an iron mordant is employed.

  9. In wool-dyeing it is usually applied on chromium mordant for browns and a variety of compound shades in combination with other Alizarin Colours and dyewood extracts, less frequently on aluminium mordant.

  10. The general dyeing properties are similar to those of Quercitron Bark, the orange colour given with tin mordant being particularly brilliant.

  11. With aluminium mordant the colour is a moderately bright green, more particularly on silk; with chromium mordant, an olive-green.

  12. It is applied in the same manner as alizarin, the chromium mordant being alone employed.

  13. After the Cynthia he rapidly became, in the mordant phrase used by Heine of Musset, un jeune homme d'un bien beau passé.

  14. Together with this remarkable power over new prose rhythms, Tacitus shows in the Agricola the complete mastery of mordant and unforgettable phrase which makes his mature writing so unique.

  15. Dutch mordant eats always slowly, and never, so far as I know, destroys the ground.

  16. It would carry me far beyond the limits of this Introduction to trace in like detail the German policy of Scharfmacherei which consisted, to use the mordant phrase of M.

  17. On every occasion that offered he vented in mordant terms his contempt for the country of his birth, boastfully proclaiming his own derivation from alien stock.

  18. His own mordant desire for her is the lash that drives him irresistibly to his destruction.

  19. This mordant scepticism which is not directed against any false doctrine in particular, but against human capacity to recognise morality resolves itself finally into nothingness, it is no more than mere nihilism.

  20. But society crumbles away almost insensibly beneath the mordant acid of contemptuous analysis.

  21. CANTO I Guyon by Archimage abusd, 2 The Redcrosse knight awaytes, Findes Mordant and Amauia slaine 4 With pleasures poisoned baytes.

  22. The best mordant to use is nitric acid, so dilute as to taste no stronger than lemon juice, and which, placed upon the edge of the stone for a few seconds, will show only slight effervescence.

  23. I could fancy the great satirist sitting in his lonely study, and penning the lines I shall quote, not without grim smiles at his own mordant humor.

  24. Those who looked with utter disapproval upon his ferocious course, were still unable to resist the influence of his mordant humor.

  25. It is usually applied as a saddening agent, that is, the wool is dyed first, and the mordant applied afterwards to fix the colour.

  26. Mordant with 3% Bichromate of Potash for 45 minutes.

  27. The wool is boiled with the mordant and dye in the same bath together.

  28. Sufficient time must be allowed for the mordant to penetrate the fibre thoroughly.

  29. Wool is generally boiled in a weak solution of whatever mordant is used.

  30. Tin is not so useful as a mordant in itself, but as a modifying agent with other mordants.

  31. Without a mordant the colour is quite fast, but if the wool is mordanted with alum a brighter and richer colour is got.

  32. Mordant the wool with 3% of Bichromate of Potash, then boil with the lichen for 1 hour or more.

  33. The wool is boiled first with the mordant and then in a fresh bath with the dye.

  34. To enter wool, to put it into the dye or mordant liquor.

  35. OLD GOLD Mordant with 3 per cent chrome, for 3/4 hour and wash.

  36. The most common mordant is sulphat of alumine, or alum.

  37. The mordant must have a strong affinity both for the colouring matter and the substance to be dyed, by which means it causes them to combine and adhere together.

  38. Some of the Indian varieties are used as dyeing materials, and act as a satisfactory mordant in dyeing leather a dark shade.

  39. A preliminary tannage with neradol forms a good mordant for the use of the strong extracts.

  40. Rose cried out, for the mordant alkaline bitterness in her sister's voice and the tragic irony in her face, were almost terrifying.

  41. As he had read it in the revulsion from that literally sickening hope of his, it had seemed about the most mordant piece of irony that had ever been launched against him.

  42. What a piece of mordant irony it was, that she should have found herself, after all her silly hopes, sobbing in his arms, while he comforted her for her bitter disappointment over not being able to comfort him!

  43. As for their uniforms, though now dry as bone, the way in which they were shrunken and wrinkled told that not long ago they had been drenched in water of strongly mordant qualities.

  44. They drank a little of the mordant water that burned the throat and seemed in no wise to relieve the horrible thirst that blackened their lips and shriveled all their tissues.

  45. When even these theses were in the main ignored, more mordant doctrine was necessarily burked.

  46. It was the most stringent censure of supernaturalism that had thus far appeared in any modern language; and its preface is an even more mordant attack on popular religion and clericalism than the main body of the work.

  47. Preparation or mordant for eight dresses, silk and wool mixed, for black.

  48. Black wool dresses for renewing and checked goods, with the check not covered by the first operation, are operated upon as follows: Preparation or mordant for eight black dresses for renewing the color.

  49. They are then ready to receive the mordant and the dye.

  50. Here stood, in mordant comment, the Palais de Justice, so wickedly profaned by the last of the intendants.

  51. The third passeth by the Willigate or Newgate, & these fall all togither with the Crosse brooke, a mile lower by south into the Mordant that runneth (as I said) by Oswester.

  52. The head of the Mordant issueth out of the Lanuerdan hilles, where diuerse saie, that the parish church of crosse Oswald or Oswester sometimes stood.

  53. Mordant brooke, and there loose their names so soone as they ioine and mix their waters with it.

  54. From hence also it goeth to Mordant towne, and betweene Landbreuie and Meluerleie doth fall into the Sauerne.

  55. Not humor but mordant irony had given birth to the sardonic smile on his thin, bloodless lips.

  56. It did not warm the cold, malignant eyes nor light the mordant face with pleasure.


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