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  2. Cruella de Vil - Wikipedia

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    Name. The name Cruella de Vil is a pun of the words cruel and devil, an allusion that is emphasized by having her English country house nicknamed 'Hell Hall'. The name 'de Vil' is also a literary allusion to Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), in which the realty firm Mitchell, Sons & Candy write a letter to Lord Godalming, informing him that the purchaser of a house in Piccadilly, London is "a ...

  3. List of dyes - Wikipedia

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    Food Black 1 28440 diazo 2519-30-4: Brilliant blue FCF: Erioglaucine FD&C Blue No. 1 Acid blue 9 Food blue 2 42090 triarylethlamine 3844-45-9: Brilliant cresyl blue: Cresyl blue BBS Basic dye 51010 oxazin 81029-05-2: Brilliant green: Malachite green G Zeylonka Basic green 1 42040 triarylmethane 633-03-4: Bromsulfthalein: BSP triarylmethane 71 ...

  4. Scleral tattooing - Wikipedia

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    Scleral tattooing is the practice of tattooing the sclera, or white part, of the human eye. Rather than being injected into the tissue, the dye is injected between two layers of the eye, then gradually spreads. The process remains uncommon due to professionals' discomfort performing the procedure [1] and is illegal in the American states ...

  5. Tie-dye - Wikipedia

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    Tie-dye. Tie-dye is a term used to describe a number of resist dyeing techniques and the resulting dyed products of these processes. The process of tie-dye typically consists of folding, twisting, pleating, or crumpling fabric or a garment, before binding with string or rubber bands, followed by the application of dye or dyes. [1]

  6. Teeth blackening - Wikipedia

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    Teeth blackening. An Akha woman from Myanmar with blackened teeth. Teeth blackening or teeth lacquering is a custom of dyeing one's teeth black. It was most predominantly practiced in Southeast Asian and Oceanic cultures, particularly among Austronesian, Austroasiatic, and Kra–Dai-speaking peoples. It was also practiced in Japan prior to the ...

  7. Natural dye - Wikipedia

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    Natural dye. Naturally dyed skeins made with madder root, Colonial Williamsburg, VA. Natural dyes are dyes or colorants derived from plants, invertebrates, or minerals. The majority of natural dyes are vegetable dyes from plant sources— roots, berries, bark, leaves, and wood —and other biological sources such as fungi. [1]

  8. Electrophoretic color marker - Wikipedia

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    An electrophoretic color marker is a chemical used to monitor the progress of agarose gel electrophoresis and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) since DNA, RNA, and most proteins are colourless. [1] The color markers are made up of a mixture of dyes that migrate through the gel matrix alongside the sample of interest.

  9. Dye-sensitized solar cell - Wikipedia

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    A selection of dye-sensitized solar cells. A dye-sensitized solar cell ( DSSC, DSC, DYSC [1] or Grätzel cell) is a low-cost solar cell belonging to the group of thin film solar cells. [2] It is based on a semiconductor formed between a photo-sensitized anode and an electrolyte, a photoelectrochemical system.

  10. Vantablack - Wikipedia

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    Vantablack is a class of super-black coatings with total hemispherical reflectances (THR) below 1% [4] in the visible spectrum. The name is a portmanteau of the acronym VANTA ( vertically aligned nanotube arrays) [5] and black . The original Vantablack coating was grown from a chemical vapour deposition process (CVD) and is claimed to be the ...

  11. Mordant - Wikipedia

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    A French Indienne, a printed or painted textile in the manner of Indian productions, which used mordants to fix the dyes. A mordant or dye fixative is a substance used to set (i.e., bind) dyes on fabrics. It does this by forming a coordination complex with the dye, which then attaches to the fabric (or tissue). [1]