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
The lower part from a was filled with water tinged blue, or rather purple, with the juice of turnsole, or archil.
From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Joseph Priestley
Take a little pinch of archil, and put some boiling-hot water upon it, add to it a very little lump of pear-lash.
From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young
If the red color of the wool is due to archil or cudbear, it is extracted by hydrochloric acid, which is colored red.
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 Joseph Priestley
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