Chemical compound and synthetic dye.
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Examples for "mauve "
Examples for "mauve "
1 He finally rounds up a mauve number which he takes with him.
2 Mrs. Gray, in an attractive mauve house-gown, came in from the kitchen.
3 In the sky, splinters of mauve tore at curtains of purplish flame.
4 Several rivers traced bright silver threads across the mauve and jade vegetation.
5 The images dim to an impotent mauve and the stage act begins.
1 Despite the grand allusion, Perkin in 1859 renamed the color mauve (inspired by the mallow flower) and the dye mauveine .
2 Again, the base known as mauve, or mauveine , has a composition shown by the formula C_{27}H_{24}N_{4}.
1 Among them are aniline violet , iodine violet, madder, alkanet, orchil and logwood.
2 Recipe to Make Violet Ink . - Ordinary aniline violet soluble in water, with a little alcohol and glycerine, makes an excellent ink.
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Translations for aniline purple