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Definition of Decolourise
1. Verb. Remove color from. "The sun bleached the red shirt"
Generic synonyms: Discolor
Derivative terms: Bleach, Bleacher
Definition of Decolourise
1. Verb. (alternative spelling of decolourize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decolourise
Literary usage of Decolourise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Methods in Chemical Analysis: (chiefly Inorganic) by William Crookes (1886)
"The difference shows the real quantity of nitric acid existing in the volume of
liquid used, in the first place, to decolourise the O5 gramme of ..."
2. Select Methods in Chemical Analysis: (chiefly Inorganic) by William Crookes (1886)
"Kolb operates upon 0-5 gramme of permanganate in solution, and the volume of acid
employed to decolourise it shows the amount of nitrous acid contained. ..."
3. Transactions of the Pathological Society of London by Pathological Society of London (1891)
"The substance separating these bacilli is difficult to decolourise, and the
bacilli themselves seem to stain of a deeper colour than the short discrete ones ..."
4. Advanced Hygiene for the Advanced Examination of the Board of Education by Alfred Edward Ikin, Robert Arthur Lyster (1902)
"For a qualitative or comparative test it is sometimes determined how much air it
takes to decolourise 1 milligramme of potassium permanganate in dilute ..."
5. The Microtomist's Vade-mecum: A Handbook of the Methods of Microscopic Anatomy by Arthur Bolles Lee (1896)
"decolourise in dilute hydrochloric acid (0'2 per cent. ... You decolourise more
or less according as you wish to have a more or less plasmatic stain or a ..."
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