"Alizarine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of madder dyeing have undergone a complete revolution, the origin of which we will seek to point out. When artificial alizarin, thanks to the beautiful researches of Graebe and Liebermann, made its industrial appearance in 1869, it was soon found that the commercial product, though yielding beautiful purples, was incapable of producing brilliant reds (C. Koechlin). While admitting that the new ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 286 - June 25, 1881 • Various |
