decolorize
Americanverb (used with object)
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The chlorine and oxygen will combine their action to decolorize the textile material.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 by Various
Make a ten per cent infusion of the suspected coffee; filter it, and decolorize the solution by boiling it with a piece of animal charcoal.
From The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) by Kenelm Winslow
Bodies absorbing oxygen, as sulphurous acid, phosphorous acid, and alcohols, decolorize it; under the influence of oxygen its color is restored.
From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by George William Septimus Piesse
The effects of various freezing procedures on the ability of samples to decolorize methylene blue were determined with 10 semen samples.
From Preservation of Bull Semen at Sub-Zero Temperatures by M. E. Friedman
The only other large use of arsenic is in the glass industry, arsenic trioxide being added to the molten glass to purify and decolorize the product.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
A: Many readers share your enthusiasm for decolorized iodine against nail fungus.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023
Q: Do you know about a cure for toenail fungus using decolorized iodine every day?
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023
The sparkle and shine had been sucked out of life so completely that my world became a fluorescent-lighted, decolorized, saltpetered version of the planet I had known before.
From Time Magazine Archive
Crystals are formed which are pressed, decolorized by animal charcoal, and recrystallized from boiling water.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 by Various
It stains with moderate rapidity with the ordinary anilin dyes, and is decolorized by Gram's method.
From Contagious Abortion of Cows by Ward J. MacNeal
The heroes of the film—again: such as they are—do their work under the bland, decolorizing fluorescents at Globe H.Q.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2015
In common daylight his coat would have shown a warm fulvous hue, but in the elvish decolorizing rays of that half hidden moon he seemed to wear a sort of spectral gray.
From Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
It is used as a decolorizing material in filtering sirups, extracts, etc., and as a black pigment.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
It will be recalled that it is used in the preparation of chlorine and oxygen, in decolorizing glass which contains iron, and in the manufacture of ferromanganese.
From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson
The decolorizing power of charcoal is an important characteristic.
From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Rufus Phillips Williams
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