Indigo - Extraction

Handbook of Natural Colorants

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 105-133

  John, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Vegetal matter mixing well with indigo granules escaping eyes of best trained experts'; Extraction procedures traditional process using crushed leaf material; Indigo extraction; Indigo sources Isatis tinctoria (woad) cultivated in temperate climates; Methods determining indigo spectrophotometrically; Natural indigo purity; Plants and indigo formation precursors; Side reactions leading from indoxyl to indirubin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883453543     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470744970.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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