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Bioremediation of these substances can be performed by lignin-degrading laccases and a namesake class of heme peroxidases. Supramolecular examples of these substances include J-aggregates. Examples of these substances like Rhodamine 6G are used as the lasing medium of a type of tunable laser. Most industrial examples of these substances consist of an azo group linking two rings. BASF (15[1])was (15[1])founded to manufacture these substances using products extracted from coal tar after William Henry (*) Perkin accidentally synthesized one of these substances from aniline. These [emphasize] soluble substances often have extensively conjugated pi systems, and are labeled with FD&C numbers in the food industry. For 10 points, the textile industry’s main wastewater pollutants are what substances exemplified by Allura Red 40 and indigo? ■END■

ANSWER: dyes [accept chromophores or fluorophores; prompt on coloring molecules or colorants; prompt on stains or labels; accept fluorescent dyes or food dyes or azo dyes; reject “pigments”]
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Shahar SchwartzBerkeley PastBerkeley B5715
Swapnil GargBerkeley AStanford5815

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