Definition of Decolorizing

1. Verb. (present participle of decolorize) ¹

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Definition of Decolorizing

1. decolorize [v] - See also: decolorize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decolorizing

decoloring
decolorisation
decolorisations
decolorise
decolorised
decoloriser
decolorises
decolorising
decolorization
decolorizations
decolorize
decolorized
decolorizer
decolorizers
decolorizes
decolorizing (current term)
decolors
decolour
decolouration
decolourations
decoloured
decolouring
decolourisation
decolourisations
decolourise
decolourised
decolouriser
decolourisers
decolourization
decolourize

Literary usage of Decolorizing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical White Sugar Manufacture: Or The Manufacture of Plantation White by Hendrik Coenraad Prinsen Geerligs (1915)
"The revivified animal charcoal is sieved in order to remove the dust, after which it may be used again, although it has not its full decolorizing power, ..."

2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1859)
"PROCESS FOE decolorizing THE FATTY OILS. M. Brunner states that he has been ... It might perhaps be supposed that the charcoal has a direct decolorizing ..."

3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1859)
"It might perhaps be supposed that the charcoal has a direct decolorizing action in this case upon the oil, just as in many cases it clears many aqueous ..."

4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1840)
"I.—decolorizing Palm Oil. (555.) The method proposed by Dr Davidson was tried with a ... When this is not done, the decolorizing process goes on slowly. ..."

5. A Laboratory Guide in Elementary Bacteriology by William Dodge Frost (1904)
"USE OF decolorizing AGENTS. Make three cover-glass preparations from a 24 hour old culture of B. subtilis, staining them with an aqueous solution of gentian ..."

6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1869)
"Mr. Medlock states that the decolorizing power of bone-black so treated is augmented at least 50 per cent. The gas named is generated beneath, ..."

7. The Mechanics' Magazine (1855)
"PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATIONS NOT PROCEEDED WITH. CASTELOT, ELOI PAULIN, of Lierre, Belgium, refiner. Improvements in decolorizing the juices of beet-root, ..."

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