This results in improved lustre, strength and dye affinity.

Mercerisation makes woven cotton fabric stronger, more lustrous, to have better dye affinity, and to be less abrasive.

Mercerizing A process that chemically increases the tensile strength, luster, dye affinity, and abrasion resistance of a fabric.

Carbon suboxide is used in the preparation of malonates; and as an auxiliary to improve the dye affinity of furs.

The rhabdoids are compared with the rhammites of other rhabditophoran species on the basis of their dye affinities, formation mechanism, and ultrastructure.

The 7α-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase from strain F-6 was purified 12-fold by triazine dye affinity chromatography with reactive blue 2 (Cibacron blue) agarose (95% yield). It was successfully lyophilized into a stable powder form.