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  • noun Alternative spelling of fluorescein.

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  • noun a yellow dye that is visible even when highly diluted; used as an absorption indicator when silver nitrate solution is added to sodium chloride in order to precipitate silver chloride (turns pink when no chloride ions are left in solution and negative fluorescein ions are then absorbed)

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Examples

  • Strasbourg with a thesis on fluoresceine and orcin-phthalein.

    Emil Fischer - Biography 1966

  • The donkey anti-rabbit and donkey anti-mouse secondary antibodies labeled with fluoresceine and rhodamine were purchased from Jackson (Westgrove, PA, USA).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Katia Cortese et al. 2008

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