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Mordant   /mˈɔrdənt/   Listen
Mordant

noun
1.
A substance used to treat leather or other materials before dyeing; aids in dyeing process.





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"Mordant" Quotes from Famous Books



... more difficult to dye than wool or silk. Although there are now what are called "direct" cotton colors, the usual process is to first treat the cotton goods with a "mordant"—various salts of aluminum, chromium, iron, tin and copper, fixing these on the fiber by means of tannin or alkali. The mordanted cloth is then entered into the dye bath and boiled for an hour or longer, ...
— Textiles and Clothing • Kate Heintz Watson
... Herder resided in Strassburg he was under treatment for a serious ailment of his eyes, and Goethe was assiduous in his attendance on him, often remaining with him for whole days. Their intercourse was not an unmixed pleasure for either. Herder's mordant humour and spirit of contradiction were a daily trial to Goethe's temper, and he describes his feelings of alternating attraction and repulsion as a wholly new experience in his life. Herder, who had known Diderot and D'Alembert ...
— The Youth of Goethe • Peter Hume Brown


Words linked to "Mordant" :   coloring material, chrome alum, destructive, sodium dichromate, sarcastic, sodium bichromate, grim, erosive, color, colouring material, antimony potassium tartrate, colour, tartar emetic


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