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To color these pieces of silk with aniline blue dye, Gracile Roxas had to do her homework. Roxas, a textile conservator who was then a master’s student at the University of Glasgow, wanted to ...

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THE subjects treated of in the volume now before us possess a twofold interest—first as involving questions of pure science in the domain of organic chemistry; and secondly, as being of immense ...