archil
Americannoun
noun
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The British came for the cheap labour, goats, donkeys, salt, turtles, amber and archil, a special ink that was used in British clothes manufacturing.
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2024
If these precautions are observed, magenta can be distinguished from archil with certainty according to König's method.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
When the electric spark was taken in it, it was confined by a quantity of water tinged blue with the juice of archil, but the colour remained unchanged.
From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Priestley, Joseph
Roccella, rok-sel′a, n. a genus of parmeliaceous lichens, yielding dyers' archil or orchil.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
If the wine is colored with archil, on prolonged heating, after the addition of ammonia, it is decolorized.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
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