Difference between Indigo and Anil

What is the difference between Indigo and Anil?

Indigo as a noun is a purplish-blue colour while Anil as a noun is any imine in which the n-radical is a phenyl (or substituted phenyl) group.

Indigo

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having a deep blue colour.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A purplish-blue colour A blue dye obtained from certain plants (the indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye.

Anil

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Any imine in which the N-radical is a phenyl (or substituted phenyl) group.A shortening of anil tinctoria (aka. indigofera tinctura), a plant from which indigo dye can be extracted.

We hope you now know whether to use Indigo or Anil in your sentence.

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