decolorize
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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 chlorine and oxygen will combine their action to decolorize the textile material.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 by Various
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
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
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
Q: Do you know about a cure for toenail fungus using decolorized iodine every day?
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023
A: Many readers share your enthusiasm for decolorized iodine against nail fungus.
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
The brown sugar is decolorized by means of ozone produced by electric currents of high tension from a dynamo.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 by Various
To obtain this substance we treat the petals of Centauria cyanus, Viola odorata, or Iris pseudacorus, with boiling alcohol, by which the flowers are decolorized; and the liquid acquires immediately a fine blue color.
From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by George William Septimus Piesse
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
The decolorizing power is not permanent, becoming lost after using for some time; it may be revived, however, by washing and reheating.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
Animal charcoal is used in large quantities for decolorizing sugar.
From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Rufus Phillips Williams
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
This is the case in the methods for staining the tubercle bacillus and also in Gram's method, the essential point in which latter is the treatment with a solution of iodine before decolorizing.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
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