Dye is a natural/synthetic substance that finds
application for adding a color/altering existing color shade. As a coloring
material, dyes are used to color commodities of day to day use and can be
applied everywhere including
- Plastic toys for children
- Fabrics worn
- From products like food
- Wood items
These are hardly any industries left where dyes are not used commercially.
As a coloring substance, dye has an ionizing and aromatic organic compound
that affinity to substrate to which it is being applied. Generally being
applied in aqueous solution, it may need mordant to improve fastness of dye
on fibers.
The support from dyes assists in :-
- Easily manipulating things according to our liking like at basic
level, use color in identifying individual components of tissue sections
- Dyes are applied to substrates like textiles, plastic, paper, food
- These are also completely/partially soluble in which these are put to