Dyes and Dyeing

Volume 1 - Issue 2

Fathi Habashi*

Received: January 19, 2018;   Published: January 25, 2018

DOI: 10.32474/LTTFD.2018.01.000110

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Abstract

Dyeing in ancient times was conducted from natural animal and vegetable resources till artificial dyes were discovered in the middle of the 19th century in coal tar. Mordating using inorganic compounds to fix the dyes on textile material was responsible for the creation of alumina for the growing aluminum industry at the end of that century. Now inorganic material like asbestos can be dyed with synthetic dyes to render it less toxic and some minerals are dyed to enhance their beauty.

Abstract| Natural and Synthetic Dyes| Mordanting and the Aluminum Industry| Dyeing of Minerals| References|