Word Finder - mordant

definition

Any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation.

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Any corrosive substance used in etching.

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A glutinous size used as a ground for gilding, to make the gold leaf adhere.

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To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant.

example

Mordant these goods for dyeing.

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Having or showing a sharp or critical quality

synonyms

• biting
• caustic
• keen
• sarcastic
• severe

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Serving to fix a dye to a fibre.

Stannous chloride is largely used in the laboratory as a reducing agent, in dyeing as a mordant.

He joined the Extreme Left, and his energy and mordant eloquence speedily made him the leader of the Radical section.

There are some inspired pairings - the splendidly splenetic Will Self appears with mordant chronicler of America's private despair, Rick Moody.

The salt is used as a mordant in dyeing and calico-printing.

Sodium aluminate is obtained in the manufacture of alumina; it is used as a mordant in dyeing, and has other commercial applications.

The salt is used as a mordant in dyeing and calico printing, and also for making textiles non-inflammable.

It is used as a mordant.

Here he was influenced, as to biblical languages and textual criticism, by the learned and loyal-minded Abbe Paulin Martin, and as to a vivid consciousness of the true nature, gravity and urgency of the biblical problems and an Attic sense of form by the historical intuition and the mordant irony of Abbe Louis Duchesne.

There are some inspired pairings - the splendidly splenetic Will Self appears with mordant chronicler of America 's private despair, Rick Moody.

In Bonghis mordant phrase, the foreign policy of Italy during this period may be said to have been characterized by enormous intellectual impotence counterbalanced by equal moral feebleness.

The reversion to the Roman communion of his old friend Crotus led to his mordant Responsio amici (1532, anon.) to the Apologia (1531) of Crotus.

Alum finds application as a mordant, in the preparation of lakes for sizing hand-made paper and in the clarifying of turbid liquids.

M 2 SnC1 61 analogous to the chloroplatinates; the salt (NH 4) 2 SnC1 6 is known industrially as - "pink salt" on account of its use as a mordant to produce a pink colour.

In the arts it is employed in the preparation of varnishes, and as a mordant for the production of colours on calico.

Salts of ammonium were also known; while alum was used as a mordant in dyeing.

In the following year he exhibited at the Royal Academy " Professor Sharpley," in marble, for the memorial in University College; and " Mrs Mordant," a relief - a form of art to which he has since devoted much attention.