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delustrants

delustrants is the plural of delustrant.

Meaning of delustrant

Noun

delustrant (plural delustrants)

  1. A chemical agent which removes the sheen from something, especially one that removes the sheen from yarn or fabric.
    • In the past, Monsanto made nylon carpet fibres containing a paraffin wax delustrant. Fibre companies are experimenting with new products all the time, so it should not be assumed that delustrant particles are all titanium dioxide.2002, James R. Robertson, Claude Roux, Ken Wiggins, Forensic Examination of Fibres, Second Edition, →ISBN, page 161

Questions about delustrants

What is delustrants the plural of?
Delustrants is the plural of delustrant.

Words near delustrants in the dictionary

  1. delusterants
  2. delustered
  3. delustering
  4. delusters
  5. delustrant
  6. delustrants
  7. delustre
  8. delustred
  9. delustres
  10. delustring
  11. deluvia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: delustrants (page history and authors); delustrant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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