auramine

auramine [awr-uh-meen, -min] ExamplesWord Origin noun Chemistry.

1. a yellow, crystalline solid, C17H22ClN3, soluble in water, alcohol, and ether, used chiefly as a dye for paper and leather.

Origin of auramine 1880–85; Latin aur(um) gold + amine Examples from the Web for auramine Historical Examples of auramine

One of these dyes is a fine basic yellow known as “auramine,” which is a derivative of diphenylmethane.

Coal

Raphael Meldola

It is interesting to notice that this irregularity sometimes occurs with soluble dyes, as for example in the case of auramine.

The Manufacture of Paper

Robert Walter Sindall