Sentence examples for lost its colour from inspiring English sources

Smalt, being a potash glass, is rather unstable; in most cases it has degraded and lost its colour, except where it has sometimes been protected by having been mixed with lead white [42].

The few greyish-blue smalt particles in the sample from the sitter's dress in the portrait by François Quesnel, for example (Fig. 2), contain only around 4 wt% K2O and therefore are not a pale grade but are degraded, as is the rest of the smalt in the sample, which has lost its colour completely.

On oxidation, it loses its colour, but in the presence of B. variegata leaf extracts, bleaching of β-carotene is inhibited by neutralizing the linoleate free radical in the system.

Already the new thatch – with its distinctive, if short-lived, golden hew (after six months it will lose its colour and start turning grey) – is taking shape.

In cricketing terms, this is a ball losing its colour.

When it comes to borscht, her golden rule is: the beet must not lose its colour.

With this development a number of other complex changes in bones, nerves, and muscles occur, and the underside of the flounder loses its colour.

The result will be that the neighbourhood loses its colour, and stops being the charming and attractive place that drew the buyers and renters of those villas in the first place.

The Three O'Clock were signed to Prince's Paisley Park imprint, although by the time he signed them, the Paisley Underground's psychedelic swirl had rather lost its vivid colour.

When the anaerobically-purified protein was removed from its anoxic environment, the protein lost its brown colour and reverted to yellow.

The first trait measured was the proportion of each leaf that had lost its green colour (was yellow), this trait was called leaf chlorosis.