Mordant vs Vitriolic - What's the difference?
mordant | vitriolic |
Having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
Any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation.
* 1964', ''In dyeing two mediums are required, the colouring matter and the '''mordant which fixes the dye in the wool.'' — , ''English Industries of the Middle Ages , p. 208.
Any corrosive substance used in etching.
To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant.
of, derived from, or similar to a vitriol
bitterly scathing; caustic: vitriolic criticism
(chemistry): Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from, or resembling, vitriol; vitriolous; as, a vitriolic taste.
As adjectives the difference between mordant and vitriolic
is that mordant is having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe while vitriolic is of, derived from, or similar to a vitriol.As a noun mordant
is any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation.As a verb mordant
is to subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant.mordant
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(en verb)- Mordant these goods for dyeing.