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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 (15[1])of a type of tunable laser. Most industrial examples of these substances consist of an azo group linking two rings. BASF was founded to manufacture these substances using products extracted from coal tar after William Henry (*) Perkin accidentally synthesized one of these substances from (-5[1])aniline. (10[1])These [emphasize] soluble substances often have extensively conjugated pi systems, and are labeled (10[1])with (-5[1])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? (10[2])■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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