Producing or imparting color; having the power to create or generate color.
From Latin 'color' plus '-fic' (from 'facere,' meaning to make). A technical adjective that emerged in scientific and artistic contexts.
In chemistry, colorific substances are those that actually produce color in other materials—like when you add a dye to water, the dye is colorific because it has the power to impart color, whereas most transparent things aren't colorific at all.
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