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UltraGreen holds an 85% market share in the US for its fluorescent dye used in surgical imaging, despite raising the average cost of its dye vials in the market by 60% and 30% in 2023 and 2024.
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Bernadette Toh, Bloomberg, 28 Jan. 2026
Founded in the gold rush era, the company built glass for Edison's light bulbs in the late 1870s, and over the following decades moved into Pyrex cookware, car filters, spacecraft windows, TV screens and vials for Covid vaccines.
—Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2026
Patryk struggles to sell his paintings, while Maria, who has a well-off background, created Tear Dealer, an art project that lets poor people trade their tears, collected in vials, for money.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 15 Jan. 2026
Injecting the drug in space wasn't easy, however, as microgravity turned the liquid in the vial into floating drops that had to be hunted down with the needle.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 14 Jan. 2026
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Bernadette Toh, Bloomberg, 28 Jan. 2026
Founded in the gold rush era, the company built glass for Edison's light bulbs in the late 1870s, and over the following decades moved into Pyrex cookware, car filters, spacecraft windows, TV screens and vials for Covid vaccines.
—Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2026
Patryk struggles to sell his paintings, while Maria, who has a well-off background, created Tear Dealer, an art project that lets poor people trade their tears, collected in vials, for money.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 15 Jan. 2026
Injecting the drug in space wasn't easy, however, as microgravity turned the liquid in the vial into floating drops that had to be hunted down with the needle.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 14 Jan. 2026
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“Vial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vial. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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vial
noun
vi·al
ˈvī(-ə)l 
: a small container (as for medicines) made usually of glass or plastic
Medical Definition
vial
noun
vi·al
ˈvī(-ə)l
: a small closed or closable vessel especially for liquids
called also phial
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