cyanine
Americannoun
noun
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a blue dye used to extend the sensitivity of photographic emulsions to colours other than blue and ultraviolet
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any of a class of chemically related dyes, used for the same purpose
Etymology
Origin of cyanine
Example Sentences
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Whether these remarks are applicable to cyanine or not is a question for artists to decide: in our opinion, with so many semi-stable original pigments, the introduction of semi-stable compounds is to be deprecated.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
However that may be, in these days both names signify cobalt compounds, cœruleum being a stannate of cobalt, and cyanine a mixture of cobalt and Prussian blue.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
Xanthine, in combination with cyanine, modified by the various juices of plants, communicates in variable proportions orange-yellow, scarlet-red, and red colors to flowers.
From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse, George William Septimus
For the procuration of this coloring matter the method pursued is exactly as that for the preparation of cyanine.
From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse, George William Septimus
Within the last few years, a compound similar to cyanine has appeared, under the name of Leitch's Blue.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
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