AZO DYE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Any dye containing one or more azo groups

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("azo dye" is a kind of...):

dye; dyestuff (a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "azo dye"):

congo red (a red-brown azo dye especially as a chemical pH indicator (congo red is red in basic and blue in acidic solutions))

methyl orange (an azo dye used as an acid-base indicator; used for titrations involving weak bases)