The Edison dynamo, with its large masses of iron, was a vivid contrast to the then existing types with their meagre quantities of the ferric element. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
For example, with alum and oxalic acid as a mordant and logwood as a dye, blue is obtained; but with a mordant of ferric sulphate and a dye of logwood, blacks and grays result. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.