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Any color in plant or animal cells

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Chlorophyll is the pigment responsible for most plants' green colouring.

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A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder

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Wine flavoured with spices and honey.

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To add color or pigment to something.

In some cases the plastid disappears and the crystalline pigment only is left.

Little is known regarding this class of pigment.

It is chiefly used as a pigment and in the manufacture of flint glass.

For most women, you will want to use your natural pigment line as a guide when applying on your lips.

Applied with a fine mist, it provides both a golden pigment for an instant glow and the self-tanner chemicals for the longer lasting tan.

It is characterized by a lack of melanin, the pigment that normally gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes.

In the case of these red-purple bacteria the colouring matter is contained in the protoplasm of the cell, but in most chromogenic bacteria it occurs as excreted pigment on and between the cells, or is formed by their action in the medium.

Micaceous iron ore consists of delicate steel-grey scales of specular haematite, unctuous to the touch, used as a lubricant and also as a pigment.

In the East the custom which has prevailed for centuries, and which is a practice at the present day, of using the seal as a stamp wherewith to print its device in ink or pigment in authentication of a document is parallel to our western habit of inscribing a signature for the same purpose.

It is typically tripartite, consisting of three cup-shaped masses of pigment, the cavity of each cup being filled with columnar retinal cells.

At their inner ends (towards the pigment) these cells contain rod-like structures, while their outer ends are connected with the nerve-fibres.

A chloroplast is an organelle in green plants containing the light harvesting pigment chlorophyll.

Skin Color The color of skin depends primarily on a pigment called melanin.

Due to the severity of removal procedures, many women instead opt for "camouflaging", which adds new pigment over the existing tattoo in order to balance out the skin tone.

Several tools exist for the application of pigment.

Some of these cells produced muscles and connective tissue; others absorbed and removed waste products, iron salts, calcium carbonate and the like, and so were ready to be utilized for the deposition of pigment or of skeletal substance.

Ferric oxide is employed as a pigment, as jeweller's rouge, and for polishing metals.

Formerly, under the name of "king's yellow," a preparation of orpiment was in considerable use as a pigment, but now it has been largely superseded by chrome-yellow.

Copper arsenite (or Scheele's green) used to be much employed as a pigment for wall-papers and fabrics, and toxic effects have resulted from their use.

In addition to diffuse pigment (mostly in the epidermis), the skin contains granular pigment stored up r' in cells, the chromatophores, restricted to the cutis, which are highly mobile and send out r2 branches which, by contraction and expansion, may rapidly alter the coloration, most batrachians being in this respect quite comparable to the famous chameleons.

Besides white (guanine) cells, the pigment includes black, brown, yellow and red.

Process 1. Dissolve gum arabic in water and mix it with a pigment and a solution of potassium bichromate or ammonium bichromate.

The white is a blue colored budgerigar with a reduction in the color pigment and works in a similar way to the yellows.

They are an excellent source of vitamin A our bodies convert the orange pigment carotene into it.

Pigment Power in carrot Color Have you ever seen a purple carrot?

After a further period the paint will become chalky as the pigment begins to be released.

In section " checker " the checker pigment pattern is explained.

Within these tissues, there are small particles called chloroplasts which contain pigments, including the green pigment chlorophyll.

What is the role of zinc chromate as a pigment in a priming paint for steels?

The XRF signal was saturated by the pigment lead chromate.

How would I use a colorimeter to detect the yellow pigment forming?

In sea, lake, and river this pigment gave a bloody coloring to the water.

A multi basin study will be carried out using diatom, pigment and pollen analysis.

Any pigment is added before the size (including a little indigo and ivory black to prevent yellowing with time in white distemper ).

Unfortunately there was very little pigment present in the sample; what there was had become almost inextricably enmeshed in the wood fibers.

Extensive or ' geographic ' atrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium, however, can result in marked visual acuity loss.

Pigment dispersion glaucoma affects 1-2% of glaucoma sufferers.

Human RPE pigment granules were isolated from RPE cells pooled into groups according to the age of the donors.

The mineral sands deposits contain ilmenite, a major source of titanium dioxide (TiO2) which is used to produce white pigment.

The chapter includes all formats from small printers to wide format printers; dye and pigment inks.

Fade resistance For print longevity pigment inks are advised.

If you are considering food supplements to help maintain eye health in particular, a plant pigment called lutein is especially useful.

Taking lutein supplements can significantly increase blood levels of lutein supplements can significantly increase blood levels of lutein & the amount of macular pigment present in the retina.

Black skin contains more melanin, which is a brown pigment.

High levels of the skin pigment melanin reduce the risk of common skin cancer for people with darker skin.

Damage in the muscle causes the release of pigment called myoglobin into the bloodstream where it is transported to the kidneys.

The red pigment in tomatoes, lycopene, works by quenching the highly damaging free radical singlet oxygen.

There is the same amount of red pigment on the surface of the balloon it is just spread more thinly and appears pale.

Truth rather than fancy was that much of his much, much older skeleton was stained by blood tinted ochre pigment.

Early ARM is when only drusen and retinal pigment epithelial changes are present.