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?
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Smoke" is usually composed of pure alcohol and coloring matter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Melanin is also the coloring matter of black cancer, one of the swiftest and most deadly forms of this disease.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hinder surface of the iris, except in albinos, has a layer of dark coloring matter resembling that of the choroid.
From A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers by Hutchison, Joseph Chrisman
