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Synonyms for mordant

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Synonyms for mordant

harshly ironic or sinister

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of a substance, especially a strong acid

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Surely the remarkable intensity of Indian reds is also due to the multiple series of dye baths and mordanting which totally saturate the cloth fibres.
To conclude, the ngar does not contain any mordant and therefore cannot be referred to as "mordanting." Rather, the ngar is a pretreatment or "scouring" to prepare cotton threads for dyeing with morinda.
10 g material samples treated with preliminary mordanting and not treated with preliminary mordanting were boiled for an hour with the extract prepared before hand and the dye bath prepared in the 20:1 liquor ratio.