Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Chemistry A substance capable of conversion into a pigment or dye.
- noun Biology A strongly pigmented or pigment-generating organelle, organ, or microorganism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The coloring matter of plants.
- noun In color-chemistry, a compound containing a chromophorous group which is capable of being converted into a dyestuff by the introduction of a salt-forming group designated as an auxochromous group.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Biol.) Vegetable coloring matter other than green; chromule.
- (Chem.) Any colored compound, supposed to contain one or more chromophores.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry Any substance that lacks
colour , but can be converted into apigment ordye - noun biology A strongly
pigmented organelle ororganism
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a compound that can be converted to a pigment
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Examples
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"Red wine, unlike white, contains a highly-pigmented substance known as chromogen," explained Dr. Wolff.
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However much we may learn of chlorophyl, chromogen, and colour-cells – the pigments of nature that are made from earth and rain, air and sun, somewhere in the dark habitation of the roots and the airy galleries of the leaves – we do not know why the same ingredients should clothe one petal with flame and another with blue.
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Finally, antibody binding was visualised using DAB as the chromogen and the sections mounted in Mowiol for observation under a Nikon 90i microscope.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hortensia Sanchez-Calderon et al. 2010
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After washing, the HRP (horseradish peroxidase) conjugated polymer complex was visualized by incubation for ~5 min with AEC (3-amino-9-ethylcarbazole) substrate-chromogen; sections were then counterstained with hematoxylin for 30 seconds, washed and mounted.
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The cE.ISA was provided and performed by VLA staff according to the O.I.E. Manual of Standards for Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines using the 16M Melitensis strain as antigen and OPD as the chromogen, stopped with Citric acid.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Francesca Scolamacchia et al. 2010
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AEC substrate-chromogen was purchased from Dako and cocktail protease and phosphatase solutions for protein harvest from Roche
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Double immunostainings with anti-LMP2/anti-Olig2 and with anti-PA28-α/anti-Olig2 were performed following the previous procedure but employing as second chromogen Perma\Blue AP Chromogen (Diagnostic Biosystems, Pleasonton, CA, USA) for alkaline phosphatase.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michele Mishto et al. 2010
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After washing, the HRP (horseradish peroxidase) conjugated polymer complex was visualized by incubation for ~5 min with AEC (3-amino-9-ethylcarbazole) substrate-chromogen; sections were then counterstained with hematoxylin for 30 seconds, washed and mounted.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Veronica Ulici et al. 2010
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This was followed by a 5-min incubation with the substrate-chromogen, 3,3′-diaminobenzidine (Vector SK-4100).
PLoS Medicine: New Articles Jeran K. Stratford et al. 2010
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AEC substrate-chromogen was purchased from Dako and cocktail protease and phosphatase solutions for protein harvest from Roche
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Veronica Ulici et al. 2010
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