Pigment

//ˈpɪɡ.mənt//

"Pigment" in a Sentence (12 examples)

It is said that Lycopene, a pigment found in tomatoes, makes your skin beautiful and helps you lose weight.

Scientists have discovered that an ancient pigment, called Egyptian blue, can be used as dusting powder to detect fingerprints.

It's unusual, but there are critters that bleed different colors of the rainbow besides red. The New Guinea lizards' blood — along with their tongues, muscles and bones — appear green because of incredibly large doses of a green bile pigment.

Some hippie writers invented the idea of a drug called "adrenochrome" which does not actually exist, but is homonymous with a non-psychoactive pigment.

The green pigment, chlorophyll, visible in leaves and in the bark of aspen, absorbs the energy from sunlight. This triggers the chemical reaction that produces sugars and starches used by the plant to grow.

Adrenochrome is a pigment.

Jaundice is a temporary yellowing of the newborn baby's skin and eyes because of excess bilirubin, a yellow pigment of red blood cells.

This pigment is the best.

Make up has often used carmine as a pigment to achieve bright red shades.

Chlorophyll is the pigment responsible for most plants' green colouring.

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Umber is a pigment made from clay containing iron and manganese oxide.

Oswald, broach the oldest wine-cask; place the best mead, the richest morat, the most sparkling cyder, the most odoriferous pigment, upon the board; […]

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