Definition of Decolouring

1. decolour [v] - See also: decolour

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decolouring

decolorises
decolorising
decolorization
decolorizations
decolorize
decolorized
decolorizer
decolorizers
decolorizes
decolorizing
decolors
decolour
decolouration
decolourations
decoloured
decolouring (current term)
decolourisation
decolourisations
decolourise
decolourised
decolouriser
decolourisers
decolourization
decolourize
decolourizer
decolours
decomino
decominoes
decommission
decommissioned

Literary usage of Decolouring

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practical Sugar Planter: A Complete Account of the Cultivation and by Leonard Wray (1848)
"That of the substances present in charcoal besides carbon, and particularly animal charcoal, those which favour the decolouring action have an influence ..."

2. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1852)
"The method of purifying and decolouring cotton oil before described, ... The first of the methods of purifying and decolouring palm oil before described, ..."

3. Iron edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1852)
"The method of purifying and decolouring cotton oil before described, ... The first of the methods of purifying and decolouring palm oil before described, ..."

4. Days at the Factories: Or, The Manufacturing Industry of Great Britain by George Dodd (1843)
"When the process of decolouring the sugar has rendered the charcoal impure, water is poured through the mass in the cisterns, until all the soluble part of ..."

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