Mordant
['mɔːd(ə)nt] or ['mɔrdnt]
Definition
(noun.) a substance used to treat leather or other materials before dyeing; aids in dyeing process.
Editor: Rufus--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
(a.) Serving to fix colors.
(n.) Any corroding substance used in etching.
(n.) Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes.
(n.) Any sticky matter by which the gold leaf is made to adhere.
(v. t.) To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant; as, to mordant goods for dyeing.
Editor: Maynard
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Biting, mordacious.
Checker: Roy
Examples
- One purpose to which it was suggested this coloured photographic process is applicable, is printing on woven fabrics, the action of light serving as a mordant to fix the colours. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The color which is fixed on the fabric as a result of chemical action between mordant and dye is frequently very different from that of the dye itself. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The sensation of her inchoate suffering roused the old sharp flame in him, a mordant pity, a passion almost of cruelty. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- For example, with alum and oxalic acid as a mordant and logwood as a dye, blue is obtained; but with a mordant of ferric sulphate and a dye of logwood, blacks and grays result. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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