Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) An artificial organic base, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, and valuable for the dyestuffs it forms.
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- noun A
purple dye , the firstsynthetic organic dye created.
Etymologies
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mauve + -ine
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Examples
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Perkin, with the encouragement of some older entrepreneurs, soon proved that the new color, mauveine, was fast in wool and silk.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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Paul Ehrlich, the German doctor who came up with this theory, had just been born when Perkin invented mauveine, but by the time he was a teenager, he had been captivated by—some said obsessed with—synthetic dyes of all colors.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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Perkin was eighteen years old when he got his patent on mauveine, and he was soon fabulously wealthy.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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