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black: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" a substance used to treat leather or other materials before dyeing; aids in dyeing process caustic: of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
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A substance that combines with a dye to form a lake that serves to produce a fixed color, or stain, in a tissue.
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From Latin "to bite," mordants are chemicals used to fix pigments into fabric during the dyeing process.
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Colorless dye absorbing substance used in some forms of toning. The silver image is converted into a mordant then soaked in dye.
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A pretreatment primer for cleaning new galvanizing before painting. The method was once out of favour
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