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