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Extracting Biodye From Purple Heart Leaves

Sreeremya Sasi

Abstract


The vibrance of plants, trees, flowers, leaves in the nature is a beauty by itself. Such flowers which are easily available are used in various fields: medicines, perfume making, etc. Dyeing is a unique phenomenon, this study garners the use of purple heart leaves for dyeing, and to identify whether leaves extract can produce the dye in the different fabric majorly cotton, silk, wool.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijbb.v3i1.184

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