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alizarin

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alizarin /aliz·a·rin/ (ah-liz´ah-rin) a red crystalline dye prepared synthetically or obtained from madder; its compounds are used as indicators.
a·liz·a·rin (-lzr-n)
n.
An orange-red crystalline compound used in making dyes and as an indicator.


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That night was a drapery of colors, prussian blues, thalo green, manganese, peppered with a rose madder that somehow deepened into a rich spray of alizarin crimsons, cadmium reds and flashes of cobalt.
Classical organic pigments with lower fastness properties than the high-performance types include 2B Red, pyrazolone reds and oranges, diarylide yellow, Red Lake C, alizarin maroon and lithol rubine.
 
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