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reagent

8 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. reagent (noun)
  2. Girard reagent (noun)
  3. Grignard reagent (noun)
  4. Karl Fischer reagent (noun)
  5. Scheibler's reagent (noun)
  6. Schiff's reagent (noun)
  7. Schweizer's reagent (noun)
  8. Twitchell reagent (noun)

re·agent

noun \rē-ˈā-jənt\

Definition of REAGENT

: a substance used (as in detecting or measuring a component, in preparing a product, or in developing photographs) because of its chemical or biological activity
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Origin of REAGENT

New Latin reagent-, reagens, present participle of reagere to react — more at react
First Known Use: 1797

Other Chemical Engineering Terms

alkali, cation, decant, hygroscopic, isotope, oxidize, slurry, solute, viscous

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