Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by function]
6. colorant (material)
7. dye
8. [dye by composition or origin]
9. synthetic dye
10. aniline dye

Narrower term/s

• pink mauve

Anotations

Scope note:

A delicate purple aniline dye; one of the earliest synthetic dyes. When chemist William Henry Perkin was working to create artificial quinine, he noticed a residue that became the first aniline dye (mauveine), sometimes called aniline purple.