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Meanings of madder root in English

Portuguese
garança
Spanish
garanza
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Rich red dye from the roots of plants of the Rubia family, used in Eurasia since ancient times.

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        Usage of madder root in English
        1
        Purple colours are also manufactured by dyeing chalk with madder root and with hysginum.
        The Ten Books on Architecture
        2
        Alizarin was known to the ancients, and until 1868 was obtained entirely from madder root.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        3
        Alizarine, which has been extensively discussed in various articles in our journal, is the coloring matter contained in the madder root.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886
        4
        One of the most notable of these is the substance known as alizarine, the coloring matter extracted from the madder root.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898
        5
        In 1870 the German chemists, Graebe and Liebermann, announced that they had succeeded in producing artificial alizarin,-thecoloring matter of the madder root.
        Forty Centuries of Ink / Or, A chronological narrative concernin...
        6
        Purpurin (1.2.4 trioxyanthraquinone) is found with alizarin in madder root; it is now prepared synthetically by oxidizing alizarin with manganese dioxide and sulphuric acid.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        7
        Turkey madder roots realise about 30s.
        The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom / Considered in...
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