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decolorize

[dee-kuhl-uh-rahyz] / diˈkʌl əˌraɪz /




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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 chlorine and oxygen will combine their action to decolorize the textile material.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 by Various

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 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

Q: Do you know about a cure for toenail fungus using decolorized iodine every day?

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

A: Many readers share your enthusiasm for decolorized iodine against nail fungus.

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

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

This is decolorized, deodorized and otherwise purified in various ways: by treatment with alkalies or acids, by blowing air and steam through it, by shaking up with fuller's earth, by settling and filtering.

From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. Slosson

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

It will be recalled that it is used in the preparation of chlorine and oxygen, in decolorizing glass which contains iron, and in the manufacture of ferromanganese.

From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson

It is well before decolorizing the leaf to immerse it in a solution of potassa; the chlorophylian starch then swells and success is rendered easier.—Lartigue and Malpeaux, in La Nature.

From Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 by Various

In common daylight his coat would have shown a warm fulvous hue, but in the elvish decolorizing rays of that half hidden moon he seemed to wear a sort of spectral gray.

From Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

The decolorizing is easily effected through boiling alcohol, which dissolves the chlorophyl and leaves the leaf slightly yellowish and perfectly translucent.

From Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 by Various


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