Definition of Mauvein

1. a mauve dye [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mauvein

mausoleal
mausolean
mausoleum
mausoleums
maut
mauther
mauthers
mauts
mauvais
mauvais quart d'heure
mauvaise
mauvaise honte
mauvaise langue
mauvaniline
mauve
mauvein (current term)
mauveine
mauveines
mauveins
mauvelous
mauvelouses
mauvely
mauveness
mauver
mauves
mauvest
mauvin
mauvine
mauvines
mauvins

Literary usage of Mauvein

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

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"A reddish-purple dye obtained from aniline, the sulphate of the base mauvein; also, the color produced by it: so called from the resemblance of the color to ..."

2. The Microtomist's Vade-mecum: A Handbook of the Methods of Microscopic Anatomy by Arthur Bolles Lee (1885)
"mauvein and rouge fluorescent often stain some nuclei much more deeply than ... Fuchsin gives a weaker stain than magdala, safranin, dahlia, and mauvein. ..."

3. Meyers Grosses Konversations-Lexikon by Hermann Julius Meyer (1902)
"... mauvein ... «mauvein» in den Handel. lx>»< entdeckte hofmann bei der Ein Wirkung von tl> ..."

4. General Medical Chemistry: For the Use of Practitioners of Medicine by Rudolph August Witthaus (1881)
"mauvein is a base whose sulphate, obtained by mixing cold dilute solutions of potassium ... A blue dye is also obtained by heating mauvein with aniline. ..."

5. The Chemistry of the Coal-tar Colours by Rudolf Benedikt, Edmund Knecht (1889)
"... are obtained when aniline containing toluidine is oxidised with chloride of lime, permanganate of potash, lead peroxide, etc. Amongst these is mauvein, ..."

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