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Two drops of the mixture will colour a large cylinder of water a beautiful violet. Here, then, is a magnificent example of enormous tinctorial power.
Watson Smith - The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing: Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association

Chemically pure Alizarin crystallises in bright-red needles; it is the colouring principle of madder, and also of Alizarin paste. But the most wonderful thing about substantive coal-tar colours is their immense tinctorial power, i.e. the very little quantity of each required compared with the immense superficies of cloth it will dye to a full shade.
Watson Smith - The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing: Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association

"It is necessary to deprive matter of its qualities in order to draw out its soul.... Copper is like a man; it has a soul and a body ... the soul is the most subtile part ... that is to say, the tinctorial spirit.
M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir - The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
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