Lexicographical Neighbors of Mauvein
Literary usage of Mauvein
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"A reddish-purple dye obtained from aniline, the sulphate of the base mauvein;
also, the color produced by it: so called from the resemblance of the color to ..."
2. The Microtomist's Vade-mecum: A Handbook of the Methods of Microscopic Anatomy by Arthur Bolles Lee (1885)
"mauvein and rouge fluorescent often stain some nuclei much more deeply than ...
Fuchsin gives a weaker stain than magdala, safranin, dahlia, and mauvein. ..."
3. Meyers Grosses Konversations-Lexikon by Hermann Julius Meyer (1902)
"... mauvein ... «mauvein» in den Handel. lx>»< entdeckte hofmann bei der Ein
Wirkung von tl> ..."
4. General Medical Chemistry: For the Use of Practitioners of Medicine by Rudolph August Witthaus (1881)
"mauvein is a base whose sulphate, obtained by mixing cold dilute solutions of
potassium ... A blue dye is also obtained by heating mauvein with aniline. ..."
5. The Chemistry of the Coal-tar Colours by Rudolf Benedikt, Edmund Knecht (1889)
"... are obtained when aniline containing toluidine is oxidised with chloride of
lime, permanganate of potash, lead peroxide, etc. Amongst these is mauvein, ..."
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