A chemical compound found in madder root that produces red or orange color when extracted.
From 'garance' (madder plant) + chemical suffix '-in' (used in naming organic compounds). The suffix '-in' marks it as a pure chemical substance.
Before 1868, all reds came from natural sources like garancin—then synthetic alizarin was invented and ruined the madder industry overnight, one of history's first examples of chemistry destroying a traditional trade.
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