Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of various coaltar colors used in dyeing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any one of a large series of aniline dyes, colored blue or violet, and represented by aniline violet.
- noun A dark green amorphous dyestuff, produced by the oxidation of aniline in the presence of copper or vanadium salts; -- called also
aniline black .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry Any of a series of blue, bluish-red and black
dyestuffs , formed by the interaction of para-aminoazo compounds with primarymonoamines in the presence of a small quantity of a mineral acid.
Etymologies
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Perhaps from indigo.
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The discovery of induline, one of the modifications of aniline black, was made known in 1864.
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