{"id":10991,"date":"2017-08-17T08:04:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T13:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=10991"},"modified":"2017-08-17T08:04:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T13:04:58","slug":"word-of-the-day-202","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/17\/word-of-the-day-202\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mordant<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A\u00a0<b>mordant<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0<b>dye fixative<\/b>\u00a0is a substance used to set (i.e. bind)\u00a0<a title=\"Dye\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dye\">dyes<\/a>\u00a0on fabrics by forming a\u00a0<a title=\"Coordination complex\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coordination_complex\">coordination complex<\/a>\u00a0with the dye, which then attaches to the fabric (or tissue).<sup id=\"cite_ref-Gold_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mordant#cite_note-Gold-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0It may be used for dyeing fabrics or for intensifying\u00a0<a title=\"Stain\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stain\">stains<\/a>\u00a0in cell or tissue preparations. As applied to textiles, mordants are mainly of historical interest because the use of mordant dyes was largely displaced by\u00a0<a title=\"Substantive dye\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Substantive_dye\">directs<\/a>.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mordant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><sup id=\"cite_ref-Azodye_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Encountered, as in my previous entry, in Jack Vance&#8217;s <em><strong>The Blue World<\/strong><\/em>. Passage omitted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mordant: A\u00a0mordant\u00a0or\u00a0dye fixative\u00a0is a substance used to set (i.e. bind)\u00a0dyes\u00a0on fabrics by forming a\u00a0coordination complex\u00a0with the dye, which then attaches to the fabric (or tissue).[1]\u00a0It may be used for dyeing fabrics or for intensifying\u00a0stains\u00a0in cell or tissue preparations. As applied to textiles, mordants are mainly of historical interest because the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/17\/word-of-the-day-202\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10992,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10991\/revisions\/10992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}