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reagent

[ree-ey-juhnt] / riˈeɪ dʒənt /
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litmus paper
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With help from a third lab, the Reagent and Diagnostic Services branch, also in Building 23, the materials were poured into vials and readied for shipment to the states.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2020

Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses.

From Nature • Oct. 31, 2017

Reagent, rē-ā′jent, n. a substance that reacts on and detects the presence of other bodies: a test: one who exerts reflex influence.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Pour into a test tube 5 cc. of the oil to be tested and 5 cc. of Halphen's Reagent.

From Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value by Snyder, Harry

The first relates to the "Prognostic Signs of the Weather" and the second is "On the Oxyacetite of Iron as a Test or Reagent for the Discovery of Arsenic."

From James Cutbush An American Chemist, 1788-1823 by Smith, Edgar Fahs




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