Synthetic dye
material · 1856 · Industrial Revolution
Perkin’s aniline mauveine.
Inventor: William Henry Perkin.
Principles and materials it uses
- Coal — is made of. Aniline from coal tar.
Where it is used
- Gram staining — is used in. Aniline dyes.
History: what it evolved from and what it influenced
- Sulfonamides — evolved into. Prontosil was a red dye.
- Indigo — evolved from. Synthesizing natural dyes.
What it is a kind of
- Dye — is a kind of. A dye.