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    Colourant - Wikipedia

    A colourant/colour additive (British spelling) or colorant/color additive (American spelling) is a substance that is added or applied in order to change the colour of a material or surface. Colourants can be used for many purposes including printing, painting, and for colouring many types of materials such as foods … See more

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    In the US, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates colourants for food safety and accurate labelling. See more

    1856
    William Henry Perkin accidentally discovers the first synthetic dye, mauveine, while trying to synthesize quinine.
    1907
    Leo Baekeland invents Bakelite, the first synthetic plastic, which can be coloured by adding pigments.
    1930s-1940s
    The development of synthetic colourants expands to include fluorescent dyes, metallic pigments, and pearlescent pigments.
    1960s-present
    The regulation of colourants for food safety and accurate labelling becomes more stringent and widespread in different countries and regions.
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  2. COLOURANT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

  3. col·or·ant
    noun
    1. a dye, pigment, or other substance that colors something:
      "a range of natural hair colorants" · "the amount of colorant that must be applied"
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    Plastic colorants are chemical compounds used to color plastic. Those compounds come in a form of dyes and pigments. The type of a colorant is chosen based on the type of a polymeric resin, that needs to be colored. …

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