decolorize
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
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 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
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
A: Many readers share your enthusiasm for decolorized iodine against nail fungus.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023
Q: Do you know about a cure for toenail fungus using decolorized iodine every day?
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
The wedge-shaped nodule of hemorrhagic infarction becomes decolorized through the absorption, in part, of the blood-pigment.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
If the action of potassa is prolonged, the red-wood shades are decolorized, and a washing with water then bleaches the tissue.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 by Various
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
The decolorizing power is not permanent, becoming lost after using for some time; it may be revived, however, by washing and reheating.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
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
It possesses a much greater decolorizing and absorbing power than wood charcoal.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
How does pyrolusite effect the decolorizing of glass containing iron?
From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson
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