Dye - Other Important Dyes

Other Important Dyes

A number of other classes have also been established, including:

• Oxidation bases, for mainly hair and fur
• Laser dyes: see, for example, rhodamine 6G and coumarin dyes.
• Leather dyes, for leather
• Fluorescent brighteners, for textile fibres and paper
• Solvent dyes, for wood staining and producing coloured lacquers, solvent inks, colouring oils, waxes.
• Carbene dyes, a recently developed method for colouring multiple substrates
• Contrast dyes, injected for magnetic resonance imaging, are essentially the same as clothing dye except they are coupled to an agent that has strong paramagnetic properties.
• Mayhem's dye, used in water cooling for looks, often rebranded RIT dye