turmeric paper

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English

Noun

turmeric paper (countable and uncountable, plural turmeric papers)

  1. (chemistry) Paper impregnated with turmeric and used as a test for alkaline substances, by which it is changed from yellow to brown.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for turmeric paper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)