Synonyms for reagent


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
Example sentences :
  • 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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