coloring matter
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His most famed achievement was discovery of the chemical structure of chlorophyl, green coloring matter which sustains plant life.
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"Smoke" is usually composed of pure alcohol and coloring matter.
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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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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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White corpuscles undergo fatty degeneration; red corpuscles give up their coloring matter and become converted, like the fibrin, into granules, and there results a granular detritus.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
