perkin in A Sentence

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    William Perkin invented the first synthetic dye.

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    Instead of buying new dresses, some of them borrowed Perkin's dresses.

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    An exhibit explains Perkin's discovery of mauve, or mauveine, an intense purple dye.

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    In 1864, 18-year-old William Perkin was experimenting with quinine in order to produce a new antimalarial drug.

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    Perkin, an artist by hobby, realized the potential of“mauvine,” as he called it, and began marketing it as the first synthetic dye.

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    When he started fiddling with chemicals in his home in March 1856, William Henry Perkin had no idea what was about to happen.

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    Perkin was tasked with finding a cheap way to produce quinine, a substance used to treat malaria, which had to be extracted from the bark of exotic trees and was thus expensive.

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