decolorize

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

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

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

An aqueous solution of fuchsine is decolorized on the addition of sulphurous acid, the easily soluble fuchsine sulphurous acid being formed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

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

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

How does pyrolusite effect the decolorizing of glass containing iron?

From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson

The decolorizing is easily effected through boiling alcohol, which dissolves the chlorophyl and leaves the leaf slightly yellowish and perfectly translucent.

From Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 by Various

Animal charcoal is used in large quantities for decolorizing sugar.

From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Rufus Phillips Williams

Excess of stain is afterwards removed from the tissues by the use of decolorizing agents, such as acids of varying strength and concentration, alcohol, &c.

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