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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dark-red crystalline substance, C12H7NO3, formed by warming resazurin with concentrated sulphuric acid, or by treating it, in ammoniacal solution, with zinc-dust or sodium-acid sulphite. It forms carmine solutions in alkalis and is insoluble in water.
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- noun organic chemistry A red,
fluorescent dye , 7-hydroxy-3H-phenoxazin-3-one, related toresazurin
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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 (
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