MORDANT

môrˈdənt [Fr.,=biting], substance used in dyeing to fix certain dyes (mordant dyes) in cloth. Either the mordant (if it is colloidal) or a colloid produced by the mordant adheres to the fiber, attracting and fixing the colloidal mordant dye (see colloid); the insoluble, colored precipitate that is formed is called a lake. The chemical compounds used as mordants are either acidic or basic. Acid mordants (e.g., tannic acid) are employed with basic dyes; basic mordants (e.g., alum, chrome alum, and certain salts of aluminum, chromium, copper, iron, potassium, and tin) are employed with acid dyes. Cloth to be dyed may be treated first with the mordant and then with the dye, or the mordant and dye may be applied together. The vividness of certain dyes that ordinarily do not require the use of a mordant may be markedly increased when one is employed.

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Madder Red: A History of Luxury and Trade : Plant Dyes and Pigments in World Commerce and Art
Book by Robert Chenciner; Curzon, 2000
Subjects: Dye Industry--History, Madder, Madder--History
...cotton and their respective mordants: Lacquer-Red wool of good...for 1lb of wool. Use alum mordant described below. Soak the...for 1lb of wool. Use alum mordant. Soak the madder in a small...for 1lb of wool. Use chrome mordant described below and then follow...
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The Craftsman's Handbook: The Italian "Il Libro Dell'Arte"
Book by Daniel V. Thompson; Dover, 1960
Subjects: Painting--Early Works To 1800, Painting--Technique
...last; and lay it over this mordant. Press it down with cotton...gold, and lay it over the mordant which has none. And do not...the gold which you lay upon mordants, particularly in these delicate...TO CONTROL THE DRYING OF THE MORDANT. 1 If you want to have this...
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Cytological Technique: The Principles Underlying Routine Methods
Book by John R. Baker; Methuen, 1966
Subjects: Histology--Technique
...Permanently stable solutions of dye and mordant cannot be made, owing to the gradual...only in the presence of an excess of the mordant that the lake behaves like an ordinary...when sections are first treated with the mordant and then with the unstable mixture of...
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German-English Science Dictionary: For Students in the Agricultural, Biological and Physical Sciences
Book by Louis De Vries; McGraw-Hill, 1939
Subjects: German Language--Dictionaries--English, Science--Dictionaries
...Beize , f . disinfectant, caustic, mordant, cauterization, disinfection. beizeiten...seed treatment . beizen , to corrode, mordant, cauterize, stain, sauce tobacco...corrosive, caustic. Beizendruck , m . mordant printing. Beiz-farbe , f . mordant...
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The Materials of Medieval Painting
Book by Daniel V. Thompson; Yale University Press, 1936
Subjects: Painting, Medieval, Painting--Technique, Pigments
...as well as to the mordant. The standard method...was to use oil mordants. These were in effect...leaf stuck to the mordant and did not stick...painting with the mordant and the brush. These oil mordants varied greatly in...
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Therapy Is a Process That Reduces Injustice
Journal article by Ian Mordant; European Judaism, Vol. 36, 2003
Subjects: Arab-Israeli conflicts--Psychological aspects, Injustice--Psychological aspects, Israel-Arab conflicts--Psychological aspects, Judaism--Psychological aspects, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy--Termination
...Therapy Is a Process That Reduces Injustice. by Ian Mordant The aim of this paper is to discuss what I take to...Mathematics, Collins Reference, 1989, p. 452. Ian Mordant * * Ian Mordant has degrees in mathematics and a diploma in psychotherapy...
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Natural Dyes: a Traditional Craft Experiencing New Attention
Journal article by Sara Kadolph; Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin, Vol. 75, 2008
Subjects: Bees, Chemical bonds, Chemistry, Clothing industry, Color, Dairy products, Dyes, Environmental impact, Frozen foods, Gardens & gardening, Insects, Minority & ethnic groups, Natural products, Research, Students, Textile fibers
...salt is known as a mordant. Common mordants include alum...most tree barks. Mordants can be added before...The specific mordant and the stage of...ragweed) and four mordants (alum, copper, iron, and no mordant). Written reports...
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A Mission of Vengeance: Vichy French in Indochina in World War II
Journal article by Martin L. Mickelsen; Air Power History, Vol. 55, 2008
Subjects: Japanese occupation--History, Military missions--Evaluation, United States (World War II), Vietnamese history, World War II, 1939-1945
...army in Vietnam, General Eugene Mordant. (38) Mordant was convinced that the Fourteenth...and Chinese residential areas. Mordants fears were supported by a warning...thereafter rested with General Mordant, who became the de Gaulle governments...
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Postmodern Cinema and the Demise of the Family
Journal article by Carl Boggs, Tom Pollard; The Journal of American Culture, Vol. 26, 2003
Subjects: Motion pictures, Personal relationships, Political systems, Popular culture, Presidential elections, Society
...depictions of family life turned increasingly mordant and violent, filled with characters who...States (1992), embracing an even more mordant, dystopic view of family life than Lynes...home. Another film with a strikingly mordant, dystopic sensibility toward the nuclear...
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Wonderful World: Comic Frames, Dissolution of Scene, the Temper of Ecocriticism
Journal article by Randall Roorda; Reader, 2005
Subjects: Ecology, Literary criticism, Novels, Theory, Writers
...ambition. Comedy is life-afhrming, not mordant. It settles for partial, qualified successes...it all," Ty is assured, bitter, and mordant in rejoinder. "Nothing, I say. Absolutely...Facing a Few of the Facts," though mordant and biting as can be, is comic in senses...
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Irreconcilable Indifference: Gary Indiana Talks about Taking His Cues from True Crime in Writing His Mordant New Novel, Depraved Indifference
Magazine article by David Bahr; The Advocate, February 19, 2002
Subjects: Authors--Personal narratives, Indiana, Gary--Personal narratives, Writers--Personal narratives
Irreconcilable Indifference: Gary Indiana Talks about Taking His Cues from True Crime in Writing His Mordant New Novel, Depraved Indifference. by David Bahr Gary Indiana seems to have forged a literary career from the gay dregs of life...
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Time Stops for No Mouse
Magazine article by Daria Donnelly; Commonweal, Vol. 128, April 6, 2001
Subjects: English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Personalities, Garfield, Leon--Works, Novelists--Works
...plaguing picture books. In fact, I am overprepared to trust the mordant and subversive (but not the ironical) because of my belief...book engaged with the big questions need not be written in mordant, society-defying excess. Lewiss incarnational imagination...
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Competing with Idiots
Magazine article by Laurence Maslon; American Theatre, Vol. 12, October 1995
Subjects: Hollywood, California--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Motion picture industry--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...Fitzgeralds The Last Tycoon, all first-hand accounts that were mordant, even terrifying indictments of the mature, ravenous giant...the lens of two studio producers. Both plays, leavened with mordant wit, were huge Broadway hits - helped more than a little by...
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Edgar Ulmer and the Black Cat
Magazine article by Paul Mandell; American Cinematographer, Vol. 65, October 1984
...glides through the gun turrets like a phantom eye. Even in this mordant milieu, Ulmers set design is as powerful and surreal as a...frailty. Darker themes for The Black Cat are more memorable. A mordant cello arrangement of Chopins Piano Prelude No. z underscored...
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The Complete Organ Works of J.s. Bach the Leupold Edition
Magazine article by George B. Stauffer; The American Organist, Vol. 44, September 2010
...St. Anne" Fugue in ?-flat Major, BWV 552/2, for instance, Bach added a second ornament (a "doppelt cadence und mordant," in his terminology) to the penultimate chord of the final cadence, giving even greater brilliance to the close (Ex...
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'Every Song I Record from Now on Has to Be Good, Has to Count' He's Got the Mordant Wit of Morrissey Mixed with the Tune-Smithery of an On-Form Elvis Costello, but You've Likely Never Heard of Mark Eitzel. Nathan Bevan Talks to the Man Dubbed America's Greatest Living Songwriter about Heart Attacks, Hecklers and Doctor Who
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), October 31, 2011
Subjects: Eitzel, Mark
Every Song I Record from Now on Has to Be Good, Has to Count Hes Got the Mordant Wit of Morrissey Mixed with the Tune-Smithery of an On-Form Elvis Costello, but Youve Likely Never Heard of Mark Eitzel...
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My Life Married to London's Funniest Man; She Is Author of an Award-Winning Hamster Murder Mystery, a Wife to Alan Davies and a Mother. So What's It like Being the Real Mrs Jonathan Creek? Liz Hoggardfinds Out
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 1, 2010
Subjects: Comedians, Hamsters
...found the confidence to write. BUT Davies has a genuinely mordant sense of humour. The Great Hamster Massacre is full of the...go to the pub after work. My life isnt planned at all." "Mordant sense of humour": the "funny and selfdeprecating" Katie...
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Daily Mail and SAGA Literary Lunch
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 21, 2006
...Liaisons Dangereuses and as George Downes opposite Julia Roberts in My Best Friends Wedding. Now he has written a witty and mordant autobiography describing the highs and lows of an actors life and chronicling some of the people hes met along the way. Jenni...
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Intellectuals vs. Creators; Profiling Those Who Forge New Visions
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 26, 2006
...frustrations. The span of incidental insights he includes in his analysis is breathtaking and if his tone is often sharply mordant to the point of appearing unforgiving, the facts he marshals are nuggets of convincing context. Part of Johnsons problem...
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'Thanksgiving' Taste of Things to Come
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 22, 2005
...that sounds like "Tequila" in Vegas. "London Song" is more like it: blackly funny and half-rapped by Mr. Davies as a mordant tour guide of the titular city. He name-drops "great Londoners" such as William Black and Charles Dickens - "and dont...
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encyclopedia articles on: Mordant  - 33 results

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Mordant
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...colloid produced by the mordant adheres to the fiber...fixing the colloidal mordant dye (see colloid...chemical compounds used as mordants are either acidic or...with basic dyes; basic mordants (e.g., alum, chrome...treated first with the mordant and then with the dye...
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Alum
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...compound. It is used in water purification, leather tanning, mordant dyeing, as an astringent, and in baking powder; it occurs...sulfate, or chrome alum, KCr(SO 4 ) 2 12H 2 O, is used as a mordant in dyeing, in tanning, and in photographic fixing baths to...
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Alizarin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...or 1,2-dihydroxyanthraquinone, mordant vegetable dye obtained originally...Turkey red is produced with an aluminum mordant, other shades of red with calcium and tin salts, dark violet with iron mordants, and brownish red with chromium...
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Lead Acetate
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...crystalline substance that is commonly known as sugar of lead, plumbous acetate, or Goulards powder. Lead acetate is used as a mordant in textile printing and dyeing, as a drier in paints and varnishes, and in preparing other lead compounds. It is made by...
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Epsom Salts
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...also occurs as the mineral epsomite. Epsom salts is used medicinally as a purgative; it is also used in leather tanning, mordant dyeing, and as a filler in cotton goods and paper. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...
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