Other Important Dyes
A number of other classes have also been established, including:
- Oxidation bases, for mainly hair and fur
- Laser dyes: see, for example, rhodamine 6G and coumarin dyes.
- Leather dyes, for leather
- Fluorescent brighteners, for textile fibres and paper
- Solvent dyes, for wood staining and producing coloured lacquers, solvent inks, colouring oils, waxes.
- Carbene dyes, a recently developed method for colouring multiple substrates
- Contrast dyes, injected for magnetic resonance imaging, are essentially the same as clothing dye except they are coupled to an agent that has strong paramagnetic properties.
- Mayhem's dye, used in water cooling for looks, often rebranded RIT dye
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