Purple colours are also manufactured by dyeing chalk with madderroot and with hysginum.
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Alizarin was known to the ancients, and until 1868 was obtained entirely from madderroot.
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Alizarine, which has been extensively discussed in various articles in our journal, is the coloring matter contained in the madderroot.
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One of the most notable of these is the substance known as alizarine, the coloring matter extracted from the madderroot.
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In 1870 the German chemists, Graebe and Liebermann, announced that they had succeeded in producing artificial alizarin,-thecoloring matter of the madderroot.
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Purpurin (1.2.4 trioxyanthraquinone) is found with alizarin in madderroot; it is now prepared synthetically by oxidizing alizarin with manganese dioxide and sulphuric acid.