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THE technology of dyestuffs and dyeing materials has acquired in recent years such a degree of complexity that a dictionary of the subject has become almost a necessity. This want is now supplied by the handy volume before us. Although essentially a dictionary and not to be regarded in the light of a text-book, it nevertheless contains many excellent articles on the chemistry and technology of textile fibres and colouring matters, and should be a most valuable work of reference for all engaged in the arts of dyeing, bleaching, calico printing, paper staining, &c. The book is issued as a companion volume to the well-known “Manual of Dyeing,” by Knecht, Rawson and Loewenthal, to which in some respects it serves as a supplement. The methods for the commercial analysis of the various chemicals, mordants and dyeing materials are treated with considerable detail. With regard to colouring-matters a careful system of classification is employed, each group being given a special article, e.g., acid colours, basic colours, direct cotton colours, mordant dyes, &c., and under each of these headings we find a fairly complete list of all the colouring-matters of the particular group at present in use. For further information with regard to individual dyestuffs, each name must be separately consulted. Excellent general articles are also to be found upon indigo, tannin matters, action of light upon dyes, and upon the analysis, valuation and detection of coal-tar colours.
A Dictionary of Dyes, Mordants and other Compounds used in Dyeing and Calico Printing.
By Christopher Rawson Walter M. Gardner W. F. Laycock, Ph.D., F.C.S. Pp. 372. (London: Charles Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1901.) Price 16s. net.
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A Dictionary of Dyes, Mordants and other Compounds used in Dyeing and Calico Printing . Nature 65, 148 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065148a0
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