fixatives in English

noun

1

a chemical substance used to preserve or stabilize biological material prior to microscopy or other examination.

an alcoholic fixative

2

a substance used to keep things in position or stick them together.

the swift glues these thin twigs to a wall using its own saliva as a fixative

Use "fixatives" in a sentence

1. Other fixatives which may be used include the oleoresins such as benzoin, or styrax.

2. Colours, Lacquers and varnishes, Aluminium foil for advertising signs, Fixatives, Paints and washes, Dyes, Engraving ink

3. Alizarine dyes, aniline dyes, blacks [colorants or paints], blues [colorants or paints], carbon black [pigment], colorants, titanium dioxide [pigment], dyes, dyestuffs, wood dyestuffs, fixatives for watercolors, indigo [colorant], ink for leather, ink for skin-dressing, stains for leather, mordants, mordants for leather, thinners for paints, pigments, wood preservatives, printers' pastes [ink], printing compositions [ink], printing ink, shoe dyes, wood stains, coloring wood, dye-wood, wood mordants and wood stains

4. Malt caramel (food colorant), anti-rust oils, wood preserving oils, annatto, fixatives for watercolours, agglutinants for food dyes (colorants), food colorants, alizarine dyes, titanium dioxide (pigments), aluminium powder for painters, artists and decorators, aluminium paints, asbestos paints, titanium dioxide, aniline dyes, marking ink for animals, anti-corrosive bands, anti-corrosive preparations, anti-rust oils, anti-rust greases, anti-fouling paints, black Japan, auramine, saffron (colorant), anti-rust preparations, indigo (colorant), anti-rust preparations for preservation, Canada balsam, varnishes, bitumen varnish, sumac for varnishes, copal varnish, colorants for beverages, bitumen varnishes, sumac for varnishes, whitewash, whites (colorants or paints), bronze powder, bronzing lacquers, caramel (food colorant), shoe dyes, lime wash