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colorante

Definitions of colorante
  1. noun
    any material used for its color
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    types:
    colore, pittura, tinta, vernice
    a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating
    mordente
    a substance used to treat leather or other materials before dyeing; aids in dyeing process
    tintura
    a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair
    pigmento
    dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
    clorofilla
    any of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms; there are four naturally occurring forms
    indaco
    a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically
    bistro
    a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot
    flou
    a yellow dye that is visible even when highly diluted; used as an absorption indicator when silver nitrate solution is added to sodium chloride in order to precipitate silver chloride (turns pink when no chloride ions are left in solution and negative fluorescein ions are then absorbed)
    arancione
    any pigment producing the orange color
    biacca
    a poisonous white pigment that contains lead
    type of:
    materiale
    the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
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