noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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natural
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It fades hair's natural pigment and the process is accelerated in colour-treated hair.
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Bleaching is merely cosmetic, designed to take out some of the natural yellow pigment in flour.
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In daytime our skin synthesises vitamin D and a natural protective pigment whilst facial movements enhance tone and elasticity.
■ VERB
contain
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Types of colour change Colour in fish is controlled by special skin cells called Chromatophores, which contain pigments .
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In humans, malignant melanoma - a cancer of the cells containing skin pigment - is a particular hazard of excess sunbathing.
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Cells containing this pigment take some time to reach the skin's surface, depending on how recently the skin was last exposed.
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Plant cells carry chloroplasts: organelles containing the pigment chlorophyll, which they employ to entrap sunlight.
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It contains pigments which give the hair its individual colour.
use
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The metals are used in pigments that color vinyl.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He likens creation to a painter mixing just four pigments to form the likenesses of all things.
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So a long hot summer with bright, sunny days well into September will result in a high concentration of both pigments.
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The robe, too, is painted in Prussian blue, a pigment not introduced until the eighteenth century.
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The two measurements are necessary, since visual pigments are light sensitive and have characteristic absorption spectra under these different light conditions.
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These are clear varnishes to which either dyestuffs or transparent pigments, or both, have been added.
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This can require a week to die down, and is followed by severe peeling that leaves no brown pigment remaining.
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Those cells which can form pigment migrate beneath the skin and enter all the feather germs.