auramine

[awr-uh-meen, -min]

noun Chemistry.

a yellow, crystalline solid, C17H22ClN3, soluble in water, alcohol, and ether, used chiefly as a dye for paper and leather.

Origin of auramine

1880–85; < Latin aur(um) gold + amine

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One of these dyes is a fine basic yellow known as “auramine,” which is a derivative of diphenylmethane.
Coal
Raphael Meldola
It is interesting to notice that this irregularity sometimes occurs with soluble dyes, as for example in the case of auramine.
The Manufacture of Paper
Robert Walter Sindall