coloring matter
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"Smoke" is usually composed of pure alcohol and coloring matter.
From Time Magazine Archive
His most famed achievement was discovery of the chemical structure of chlorophyl, green coloring matter which sustains plant life.
From Time Magazine Archive
Melanin is also the coloring matter of black cancer, one of the swiftest and most deadly forms of this disease.
From Time Magazine Archive
Or are the carrots and umbrellas mere coloring matter, meant to mean one thing to the artist, another to the esthete reader, another to the newspaper man, mere pigment?
From Time Magazine Archive
For example, chlorophyl, the green coloring matter of vegetation, is a peculiar green as compared with green pigments.
From Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications by Matthew Luckiesh
