alizarine red

alizarine red
noun
a bright orange-red color produced in cotton cloth with alizarine dye
Syn: ↑Turkey red
Hypernyms: ↑red, ↑redness

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noun
Usage: often capitalized A&R
: any of various red mordant or acid dyes most of which are derived from anthraquinone: as
a. : turkey red 1a
b. : an orange-yellow crystalline compound C14H7NaO7S used chiefly for dyeing and printing aluminum-mordanted wool scarlet red, as a biological stain, and as an analytical reagent (as for detecting aluminum); sodium 3-alizarin-sulfonate — called also Alizarine Carmine, Alizarine Red S, Alizarine S; see dye table I (under Mordant Red 3)

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