decolorize
Americanverb (used with object)
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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 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
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
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
Objects are seen in a strangely tinted light, which is more than suspected to be delusive, yet cannot be decolorized.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 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
Manganese is used largely as a "decolorizing" agent in counteracting the blue-green of iron.
From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh
Most sugar solutions, however, will require the addition of a clarifying or decolorizing agent in order to render them sufficiently clear and colorless to polarize.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 by Various
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
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
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