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• n  dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
• n  any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color
• n  a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating
  artists use `paint' and `pigment' interchangeably
• v  acquire pigment; become colored or imbued
• v  color or dye with a pigment
  pigment a photograph

• Even after he started to make good money, which happened soon, his fingernails were caked with pigment, and he kept one of them long, like a blues guitarist does, so that he could .
• It is a delicate undertaking, and pigment can inadvertently be put into hair follicles rather than under the skin.
• While the pigment is less efficient than chlorophyllonly an estimated 10% of light energy is convertedit is more stable and easily extracted from the bacteria.

• paint

News & Articles

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• Tampa Pest Control Company Discusses Study That Finds How Melanin is Used in Insects
  TAMPA, Fla., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- For humans, melanin determines one's skin. The compound is a polymer, and also creates color in the eye and hair. Higher levels of melanin determines darker pigment for a person. For insects, however, melanin is a large portion of the...
  June 13, 2013 - PR Newswire
• Pigments suggest famed dino-bird sported black and white feathers
  A transitional species that represents a link between dinosaurs and birds may have sported pale feathers that were dark at the tips, a new study suggests.For the study, detailed in the June 13 issue of the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, researchers used an X-ray beam to identify ancient traces of pigment in fossils of Archaeopteryx, a winged creature that lived about 150 million ...
  June 12, 2013 - MSNBC
• Curcumin: New studies support brain and cardiovascular benefits
  Daily supplements of curcumin – the natural pigment that gives the spice turmeric its yellow color – may support healthy aging, with two new studies indicating benefits for arterial aging and cognition.
  June 11, 2013 - Nutraingredients.com

Quotes

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• Jonny Gomes in USA Today
  I actually lost it in the lights and panicked, to tell you the honest truth,Gomes said. "It's good to come in here and see smiles on peoples' faces, and get some pigment back in our skin."
• Dave Foley in Scotsman
  A pawn, I suppose, a bit of pigment on the canvas,Foley says. "This is either going to be the worst movie I've ever been in, or it's going to be brilliant. There's not any middle ground."
• Peter Vecsey in Myrtle Beach Sun News
  Just as the pigment chlorophyll converts sunlight into chemical energy that allows green plants to live and grow, our research suggests that melanin can use a different portion of the electromagnetic spectrum -- ionizing radiation -- to benefit the... Albert Einstein http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFrXBudMlHwOrPUr32X7wd_3GKgUA Reuters http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2245384920070523&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFQcMDp7xouFsb83vuftiXVkJRpJQ May 22, 2007 74531 100257 pigmentation If these Jivey-League researchers knew anything about the game, they'd realize refs, in the instant they must make a call, don't have the time to consider a player's uniform number, much less pigmentation," Vecsey wrote.