Dyestuff is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DYESTUFF in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a substance used in dyeing
• a substance yielding a dye or that can be used as a dye, especially when in solution.
• substance that can be used as a dye or from which a dye can be obtained
• A material used for dyeing.
• a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair

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Words that contain DYESTUFF

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How to use DYESTUFF in a sentence

• When all the chlorine has disappeared add the dye-stuff, and dye as directed above.
• It is also used to apply indigo carmine to wool, probably the only good example of a natural dye-stuff applied by this process.
• The combination between the dye-stuff and the mordant is influenced also by temperature, and is most active at the boiling point of water.
• Whenever possible the dye-stuff must be dissolved separately, or at least the bath not entered before the dye-stuff is well dissolved.
• Old solutions sometimes contain crystals of the dye-stuff which have separated out.
• In such an event it is not an uncommon circumstance for the casks or other vessels containing them to burst, with a consequent loss of dye-stuff.
• No other natural dye-stuff is used in the dyeing of black than these here given.
• Moreover, as a rule they are faster to acids, alkalies and milling than are the logwood blacks, and as regards fastness to light they excel that dye-stuff.
• One method, which will yield a pale and useful tint with a particular dye-stuff, would fail if a full shade were necessary.
• During the boiling operation the mordant and dye-stuff combine together, and form the characteristic colour lake, and the boiling fixes this firmly on to the wool.
• Either a simple green dye-stuff may be used or mixtures of blue and yellow dye-stuffs may be employed, this latter method being extremely common.
• The dye-stuff is insoluble in water, cold alcohol, alkalies or weak acids.
• But dissolving in sulphuric acid materially affects the properties of indigo as a dye-stuff, as will be seen later on.
• These dyes are used in neutral baths, that is, along with the dye-stuff.
• If the wool only is too light, or its shade different from that of the cotton, add some more of the dye-stuff used for shading the wool and bring them again to the boil.
• The moment we entered, Aunt Huldah stretched out her hand for the dye-stuff.

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