coloring matter
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Or are the carrots and umbrellas mere coloring matter, meant to mean one thing to the artist, another to the esthete reader, another to the newspaper man, mere pigment?
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Melanin is also the coloring matter of black cancer, one of the swiftest and most deadly forms of this disease.
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Main difference between the chemical composition of chlorophyll and the coloring matter of blood cells is that the former contains magnesium, the latter iron.
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He analyzed chlorophyll, the green coloring matter of all growing plants, and showed that chemically it is closely related to hematin, the coloring matter of blood.
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The character of the poison was first carefully investigated by Kobert, who showed that the Amanita extract has the power of laking or dissolving out the coloring matter from red blood corpuscles.
From Food Poisoning by Jordan, Edwin Oakes
