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negative staining

3 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. negative staining (noun)
  2. stain (transitive verb)
  3. stain (noun)

negative staining

noun

Definition of NEGATIVE STAINING

: a method of demonstrating the form of small objects (as bacteria) by surrounding them with a stain that they do not take up so that they appear as sharply outlined unstained bright bodies on a colored ground

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