Reagent Definition

rē-ājənt
reagents
noun
A substance used to detect or measure another substance or to convert one substance into another by means of the reaction which it causes.
Webster's New World

(chemistry) A usually available or readily made compound or known mixture of compounds used to treat materials, samples, other compounds or reactants in a laboratory or sometimes an industrial setting.

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Other Word Forms of Reagent

Noun

Singular:
reagent
Plural:
reagents

Reagent Sentence Examples

  • The colourproducing reagent is added and the tints compared.

  • Various hydrates have been described, but they cannot be formed by precipitating a uranyl salt with an alkali, this reagent giving rise to salts termed uranates.

  • Sometimes it is necessary to allow the solution to stand for a considerable time either in the warm or cold or in the light or dark; to work with cold solutions and then boil; or to use boiling solutions of both the substance and reagent.

  • With the Grignard reagent, they form addition compounds which on the addition of water yield tertiary alcohols, except in the case of ethyl formate, where a secondary alcohol is obtained.

  • Sulphuretted hydrogen, in the presence of free mineral acid, gives no precipitate; sulphide of ammonium, from neutral solutions, precipitates T12S as a dark brown or black precipitate, insoluble in excess of reagent.

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Words Starting With

RREREA

Words Ending With

TNTENT

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