An acid-base indicator which is colorless in acid solution, but turns pink to red as the solution becomes alkaline. It is used medicinally as a cathartic.
Tracer/y
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A similar decoration in some styles of vaulting, the ribs
of the vault giving off the minor bars of which the tracery is
composed.
Tracer/y meaning & definition 1 of Tracer/y.
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