Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dark-red crystalline substance, , made by the action of nitrous acid or nitrogen peroxid on resorcinol. It decomposes when melted. Also called resazoin.

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  • noun organic chemistry A blue dye that is reduced to the fluorescent derivative resorufin

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  • (A suitable reagent is one resazurin tablet and one rennet tablet dissolved in 50 ml distilled water.)

    Chapter 6 1989

  • A change from blue to pink coloration is indicative of resazurin reduction and consequently it correlates with bacterial viability.

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  • Specifically, the group probed the solution-phase catalytic reduction of resazurin molecules to resorufin by measuring the fluorescent light bursts that mark each catalytic event (

    Chemical & Engineering News: Latest News 2008

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