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  1. pigmentsnoun

    Plural noun or verb form of the word pigment.

    The pigments in the washing machine dye were fine particle like powder which dyed the fabric effectively.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 26, 2016  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pigments in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pigments in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of pigments in a Sentence

  1. Shiladitya DasSarma:

    That's where it might make a difference when we look at exoplanets. We would want to consider that the pigments on an alien planet might be different than what we have on modern Earth, and if the Purple Earth hypothesis was correct and there was a dominance of purple organisms in the early Earth, then we might be able to find another planet that's at an earlier stage of evolution of the planet, where the purple pigments might have dominated.

  2. Michael Behrenfeld:

    The features that jump out so clearly represent the influence of ocean eddies and physical stirring on the concentration of phytoplankton pigments and, possibly, colored dissolved organic matter.

  3. Henry S. Hoskins:

    The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.

  4. William Keeton:

    The contrasting temperature between night and day speeds up the loss of chlorophyll from leaves, leaving behind the secondary photosynthetic pigments( carotenoids) that give us the yellow and orange colors.

  5. Miles Barr:

    Light absorbing dyes are found all around us. They're in paints, they're in pigments for clothing, and they're even in electronic devices, what we've done is we've engineered those dyes to selectively absorb infrared light and also convert that light into electricity.

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