decolorize

The effects of various freezing procedures on the ability of samples to decolorize methylene blue were determined with 10 semen samples.

From Preservation of Bull Semen at Sub-Zero Temperatures by M. E. Friedman

The chlorine and oxygen will combine their action to decolorize the textile material.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 by Various

Make a ten per cent infusion of the suspected coffee; filter it, and decolorize the solution by boiling it with a piece of animal charcoal.

From The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) by Kenelm Winslow

The only other large use of arsenic is in the glass industry, arsenic trioxide being added to the molten glass to purify and decolorize the product.

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

Bodies absorbing oxygen, as sulphurous acid, phosphorous acid, and alcohols, decolorize it; under the influence of oxygen its color is restored.

From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by George William Septimus Piesse

Q: Do you know about a cure for toenail fungus using decolorized iodine every day?

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

A: Many readers share your enthusiasm for decolorized iodine against nail fungus.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

The sparkle and shine had been sucked out of life so completely that my world became a fluorescent-lighted, decolorized, saltpetered version of the planet I had known before.

From Time Magazine Archive

It must be carefully noted, however, that the feces are not decolorized, but, as already described, contain fully a normal amount of biliary coloring matter.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

It stains with moderate rapidity with the ordinary anilin dyes, and is decolorized by Gram's method.

From Contagious Abortion of Cows by Ward J. MacNeal

The heroes of the film—again: such as they are—do their work under the bland, decolorizing fluorescents at Globe H.Q.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2015

It will be recalled that it is used in the preparation of chlorine and oxygen, in decolorizing glass which contains iron, and in the manufacture of ferromanganese.

From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson

In common daylight his coat would have shown a warm fulvous hue, but in the elvish decolorizing rays of that half hidden moon he seemed to wear a sort of spectral gray.

From Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

Carbon pictures are therefore only permanent according to the degree in which the coloring matter employed is capable of resisting the decolorizing action of light.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 by Various

This is the case in the methods for staining the tubercle bacillus and also in Gram's method, the essential point in which latter is the treatment with a solution of iodine before decolorizing.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various