Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century

by Robert Routledge

LIST OF COAL-TAR COLOURS.

I. Colours derived from Aniline and Toluidine.

Blues and Violets.

Mauve, aniline purple, Perkin’s violet, violine, mauve, rosaniline, anodising, &c.

Aniline blue, rosaniline blue, Hofman’s blue, bleu de Paris, bleu de Lyons, bleu de Mulhouse, bleu de Mexique, bleu de nuit, bleu lumière, night blue.

Hofman’s blue.

Nicholson’s blue, soluble blue.

Hofman’s violet, rosaniline violet.

A long series of red and blue violets, bearing Hofman’s name and distinguished in commerce by adding R or B, according to the redness or the blueness of the tint, ranging from RRRR to BBBB.

Dahlia.