reagent
A compound or mixture of compounds used to treat or test materials, samples, other compounds or reactants in a laboratory or sometimes an industrial setting.
Related words
- bioreagent
- immunoreagent
- monoreagent
- nanoreagent
- photoreagent
- reagentless
- Benedict's reagent
- Brady's reagent
- Edman's reagent
- Karl Fischer reagent
- Ehrlich's reagent
- Froehde reagent
Word history
From Latin "reagō".
Where this comes from
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