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People say “fix” or “fixant,” but those are unspecific terms. Like calling bacteria “germs” or insects “bugs.”
In one method alone, we use van der Waal forces and ionic bonding in a very specific dance with hydrogen. Having a chemistry education was helpful in interpreting some 120-year-old recipes, in our creating layered colors, swirls and dyed-in textures, including color-shifting. You may have heard of mordant or chelating as a process.
Binders are what our Dye Master stores her handwritten recipes in. 
My first set of steel armor, back before 60 was Level Cap, was red and gold with various accents. It took me a week of trying just to get it right. In those days I refused to use Control Panel or SP, it was all live on the server. Many of the times the clans on the server were worrying about my whereabouts, I was gathering more dye mats.
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