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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ree-ey-juh nt |
| Phonetic Transcription : riˈeɪ dʒənt |
Définition of reagent
Origin :- 1785, from re- + agent "substance that produces a chemical reaction."
- As in litmus paper : noun acid-base indicator
- Tannin precipitates, and the precipitate is soluble in excess of the reagent.
- Extract from : « Poisons: Their Effects and Detection » by Alexander Wynter Blyth
- Moisten samples of cotton and of wool with Millon's reagent.
- Extract from : « Clothing and Health » by Helen Kinne
- Treat a sample of the flour in a test tube with this reagent.
- Extract from : « Detection of the Common Food Adulterants » by Edwin M. Bruce
- If this is not the case a slight excess of the reagent is added.
- Extract from : « Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II » by Arnold Cooley
- It is a reagent which adds new qualities and rearranges what is received.
- Extract from : « Human Nature and Conduct » by John Dewey
- This reagent is usually added to the sol, after evaporation and before gelation.
- Extract from : « Animal Proteins » by Hugh Garner Bennett
- In chemistry, as a reagent; and, owing to the cold produced during its solution, to form frigorific mixtures.
- Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
- Its salts would be precipitable by barium carbonate; the gallium salts are thrown down by this reagent.
- Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
- Apparently because it cannot be liquefied by the reagent disgorged by the worms.
- Extract from : « The Life of the Fly » by J. Henri Fabre
- The reagent that causes this liquefaction escapes my endeavors to detect it.
- Extract from : « The Life of the Fly » by J. Henri Fabre
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