Safranine Definition

safrənēn, safrənin
noun
A yellowish-red aniline dye, C18H15N4Cl, or any of several dyes closely related in structure to this.
Webster's New World
Any mixture of the various salts of the safranine dyes, used as a dye and as a stain in microscopy.
Webster's New World

Any of a class of red to blue azine dyes.

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Noun

Singular:
safranine
Plural:
safranines

Safranine Sentence Examples

  • For the phenazonium salts see Safranine.

  • The "safranine" of commerce is a tolusafranine.

  • Reference should be made to the articles Dyeing, Fuchsine, Safranine, Indulines, for more details On this subject.

  • In commerce three brands of aniline are distinguished - aniline oil for blue, which is pure aniline; aniline oil for red, a mixture of equimolecular quantities of aniline and orthoand para-toluidines; and aniline oil for safranine, which contains aniline and ortho-toluidine, and is obtained from the distillate (echappes) of the fuchsine fusion.

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