transcolorationtranscolourationn.
Now rare or Obsolete.
The action or process of transcolouring; change of colour.
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discoloura1398
discolouring?a1425
discolouration1545
discolouredness1585
transcoloration1664
discolourment1762
discolorization1827
metachromatism1876
metachromism1876
metachrosis1887
tinctumutation1895
electrochromism1961
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 74 Experiments in the Extraction, Commixtion, and Transcoloration of Tinctures.
?1790 J. Imison Curious & Misc. Articles (new ed.) 94 in School of Arts (ed. 2) Among the most pleasing as well as surprizing phenomena of nature [are] the transcolourations produced by chemistry.
1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 21 781 True, through all transformations, and transfigurations, and transcolorations, to their original..forms, figures, and colours.
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