Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fuchsine"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Magenta \Ma*gen"ta\, n. (Chem.)
An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a
green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of
red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in
allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye
was discovered. Called also {fuchsine}, {rose["i]ne}, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fuchsine \Fuch"sine\, n. [Named by the French inventor, from
Fuchs a fox, the German equivalent of his own name, Renard.]
(Chem.)
Aniline red; an artificial coal-tar dyestuff, of a metallic
green color superficially, resembling cantharides, but when
dissolved forming a brilliant dark red. It consists of a
hydrochloride or acetate of rosaniline. See {Rosaniline}.
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