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Asian plants, mostly Indigofera tinctoria (aka Indigofera sumatrana) were the original source for the dye, with several thousand square kilometers of the plants grown in India around 1900.
A variant found in the Americas is Indigofera suffruticosa, known as añil in the West Indies. The name for now-synthetic aniline dyes comes from this name.
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From the Ancient Greek "Indikon" for India. As the dye came form India.
Indigo is a deep blue purple color. It is also the name of a dye that is derived from the indigo plant.
Indigo dye comes from Indigofera tinctoria a sub-shrub native to the East Indies.
The use of indigo, which is a dye that can come from at least 5 different plants, was first used in the 7th century, BC. The plants from which indigo dye came were most likely weeds. No one knows who may have started raising plants containing indigo, as it was so long ago. Today, man-made indigo dye (not from plants) is the color used in blue jeans.
Means growing the plant used to make indigo dye. Indigo is sort of a red/purple.
The plant indigofera tinctorial was the source of deep blue dye before synthetic dyes were developed.
No. Indigo is a blue derived from the dye made from the indigo plant, violet is a shade of the secondary colour purple.
Indigo dye traditionally comes from the leaves of the indigo plant, which is a bushy legume. It has been used for dyeing for more than 4,000 years. The scientific name for one variety is Indigofera decora.Anil is a source of indigo.
"Anil" is a word used for the indigo plant or the dye obtained from it.
Anil it is the indigo plant or the blue dye obtained from it
indigo (a dye derived from the indigo plant), rice, and after 1793, cotton gin.
A dye is extracted from indigo plant leaves for dyeing cotton yarn.
Indigo has to be converted to the leuco-base form in a dye bath because indigo is insoluble in water and has to be converted to a water-soluble form through an oxygen-reduction process. This action produces luecoindigo which it used to dye clothes. The clothe can be converted back to an indigo form thereafter by air drying.
Yes there is a color called indigo, and there is also a plant called indigo where they first got the dye color from. YES THERE ISSSSS!!!
It has not, 'indigo' is a colour named after the purple dye derived from the plant Indigofera tinctori.
Most natural indigo dye was obtained from various plants in the genus Indigofera, a large genus of over 750 species of flowering plants from the family Fabaceae. Indigo dye can be produced synthetically nowadays.
The rocks in the canyon have varying hues of red, and tan, and indigo. The indigo plant was widely use to make a blue clothing dye.
The indigo dye plant is used to create beautiful blue colors. The chemical responsible for the beautiful blue color is indigotin. Indigo from plants has been replaced by synthetic blue colors in recent times due to the ease of processing.
yea. in case of indigo, vatting involves reduction of a pair conjugated carbonyl groups,
"Indigo." and rice
tobacco, rice, and Indigo Dye.
It is partially fermented indigo.
She created indigo, or a dye.
indigo was the plants name
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