quercitron
IPA: kwˈɝsɪtrɑn
noun
- A yellow dye obtained from the bark of the black oak.
- The black oak tree, Quercus velutina, indigenous to North America.
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Examples of "quercitron" in Sentences
- In the case of the natural dye-stuffs -- logwood, fustic, Persian berries, Brazil wood, camwood, cochineal, quercitron, cutch, etc. -- which belong to this group of
- Few previously unknown natural coloring sources brought into Europe at this time proved to have widespread commercial success; quercitron is the only example that comes readily to mind.
- About the time of the Revolution the town became a well-known station for the export of quercitron bark, and all the while the clacking mills were busy along the uneasy rapids of the Brandywine.
- The dye-woods -- fustic, Brazil wood, bar wood, Lima wood, cam wood, cutch, peach wood, quercitron bark, Persian berries -- have since the introduction of the direct dyes lost much of their importance and are now little used.
- _Brown Stil de Grain_, _Citrine Lake_, or _Quercitron Lake_ is usually prepared from the berries of Avignon (ramnus infectorius), better known as French, Persian, or Turkey berries; but a more durable and quicker drying species is obtained from the quercitron bark.
- The usual methods of applying all the other dye-woods, to obtain scarlets to reds with Brazil wood, Lima wood, peach wood; or yellows with fustic, quercitron or Persian berries, is to first prepare the cotton with sumac, then mordant with alumina acetate or tin crystals
- Logwood is not only used for dyeing blacks and greys as the principal colouring matter, but is also used as a shading colour along with cutch, fustic, quercitron, etc., in dyeing olives, browns, etc., and among the recipes given in this section examples of its use in this direction will be found.
- _ -- Work for twenty minutes at 80° F. in a bath of 10 lb. fustic extract, 5 lb. quercitron extract, 2 lb. logwood extract; heat to boil, work for half an hour, then enter in a cold bath of 2 lb. sodium bichromate and 5 lb. copper sulphate; work for twenty minutes, then heat to boil; work for twenty minutes more, wash and dry.
- With regard to Mr. Watson Smith's observation as to fractional dyeing, he (Mr. Siebold) did not regard this method as a suitable trial for ascertaining the strength of an extract, but he admitted it was occasionally very valuable for detecting an admixture of extracts of other dyewoods, such as quercitron bark extract in logwood extract.
- Bancroft's persuasive abilities were considerable: His 1775 patent for the sale of quercitron in Britain was renewed when he argued that war hindered his ability to exploit its rights. 43 Once the patent was extended, Bancroft turned to the Council of Commerce in Paris for a similar privilege in France; he controlled access to this improved coloring material and its coloring technique in both countries until his death.
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