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  2. Synthetic colorant - Wikipedia

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    Synthetic colorants are those created in a laboratory or industrial setting. The production and improvement of colorants was a driver of the early synthetic chemical industry, in fact many of today's largest chemical producers started as dye-works in the late 19th or early 20th centuries, including Bayer AG (1863). [ 2 ]

  3. Crosswordese - Wikipedia

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    Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start and/or end with vowels, abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual combinations of ...

  4. Vermilion - Wikipedia

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    However, during the Tang dynasty (618–907), when the synthetic vermilion was introduced, that color became darker and richer. The poet Bai Juyi (772–846) wrote in a song poem praising Jiangnan , "the flowers by the river when the sun rises are redder than flames", and the word he used for red was the word for vermilion, or Chinese red.

  5. Will the FDA ban red dye 3? Controversial food additive used ...

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    While red No. 3 has been banned from cosmetics in the U.S. since 1990, the dye – one of nine synthetic dyes approved for use in the U.S. – remains in food products.. However, the FDA has two ...

  6. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    French uses the capital É, because the use of a capital letter alters the meaning of the word (État: a State, as in a country; état: a state of being). It also cannot be shortened as coup as is often the case in English- because this literally means a "hit" in French, but can be used figuratively to mean many more things.

  7. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues.

  8. Acrostic (puzzle) - Wikipedia

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    An acrostic puzzle published in State Magazine in 1986. An acrostic is a type of word puzzle, related somewhat to crossword puzzles, that uses an acrostic form. It typically consists of two parts. The first part is a set of lettered clues, each of which has numbered blanks representing the letters of the answer.

  9. Qualcomm chip sales to Chinese smartphone makers fuel strong ...

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    Qualcomm said it expects sales and adjusted profits for its fiscal first quarter - which will cover the holiday shopping season in U.S. and European markets - with a midpoint of $10.90 billion and ...