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Definition of Ponceaus
1. ponceau [n] - See also: ponceau
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ponceaus
Literary usage of Ponceaus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chemical Technology of Textile Fibres: Their Origin, Structure by Georg von Georgievics (1902)
"The fastest to light of all the ponceaus are the palatine scarlets (BASF) ...
Colours that will stand sulphur are furnished by, eg, ponceaus 2R, 3R, (M.LBr. ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1900)
"From strawberry, raspberry, cherry, and blood-orange flavors, brilliant red and
magenta shades were fixed on the wool (acid magenta, Bordeaux red, ponceaus ..."
3. Chemistry of Dye-stuffs by Georg von Georgievics (1903)
"... Scarlet are identical with the RB ponceaus of the Berliner Act. Ges. fur Anilin-
fabrication ; whilst the B marks of Bayer's ..."
4. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"Amaranth can be distinguished from the ponceaus and Fast Reds by its behaviour
in acid solution when shaken with amyl alcohol. ..."
5. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"... used in the earlier members, as eg in the ponceaus (1878) ; and also by the
introduction of an additional chromophore, as in Biebrich scarlet (1878). ..."
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