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?
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
Main difference between the chemical composition of chlorophyll and the coloring matter of blood cells is that the former contains magnesium, the latter iron.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Smoke" is usually composed of pure alcohol and coloring matter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though the oil is now free from acid, it still contains coloring matter and other substances which would prove injurious.
From Friction, Lubrication and the Lubricants in Horology by William T. Lewis
