coloring matter
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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?
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Melanin is also the coloring matter of black cancer, one of the swiftest and most deadly forms of this disease.
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Main difference between the chemical composition of chlorophyll and the coloring matter of blood cells is that the former contains magnesium, the latter iron.
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"Smoke" is usually composed of pure alcohol and coloring matter.
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Freckles are due to an irregular increase of coloring matter.
From A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers by Hutchison, Joseph Chrisman
