coloring matter
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Melanin is also the coloring matter of black cancer, one of the swiftest and most deadly forms of this disease.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Smoke" is usually composed of pure alcohol and coloring matter.
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His most famed achievement was discovery of the chemical structure of chlorophyl, green coloring matter which sustains plant life.
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He analyzed chlorophyll, the green coloring matter of all growing plants, and showed that chemically it is closely related to hematin, the coloring matter of blood.
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If a solution containing not more than one-thousandth part of a grain of the coloring matter of the corpuscle, be examined, this instrument will detect it.
From A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers by Hutchison, Joseph Chrisman
