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  • noun organic chemistry The aromatic compound 2,2-dihydroxyindane-1,3-dione which is used as a reagent to detect amines

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Examples

  • But in doing so, he runs the risk of ruining any possibility of fuming prints with superglue or looking for them with an alternate light source and luminescent powders or processing them with chemicals such as ninhydrin or diazafluoren.

    Predator Cornwell, Patricia 2005

  • If you used the small-particle reagent first, like they did in the episode, it would ruin the porous surface for the ninhydrin procedure.

    HOUSE RULES JODI PICOULT 2010

  • A ninhydrin analysis revealed a total of nearly two hundred latent fingerprints on the three pages on which the marked paragraphs appeared and another eighty on the jacket.

    More Twisted Stories Vol II Deaver, Jeffery 2006

  • Kincaid frowned but before he could say anything Lukas added, “I told them to use the laser only No ninhydrin.”

    THE DEVIL’S TEARDROP JEFFERY DEAVER 2003

  • Chapter Forty-nine THE SKY WAS the color of a ninhydrin bloom on white paper.

    The Last Coyote Connelly, Michael, 1956- 1995

  • The heat brought up the ridges of several fingerprints in the ninhydrin.

    The Black Ice Connelly, Michael, 1956- 1993

  • He picked up the spray bottle and pumped four sprays of ninhydrin mist over the box.

    The Black Ice Connelly, Michael, 1956- 1993

  • Sometimes latents come out with a nitrate solution or ninhydrin or superglue.

    Mistress of Justice Deaver, Jeffery 1992

  • Then Kirwill retraced his route a second time, without the lamp and without a magnifying glass, comparing the ninhydrin prints with his own card of the prints of James Kirwill.

    Gorky Park Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1981

  • Kirwill started on porous surfaces with an atomizer of ninhydrin, working clockwise from the garage door.

    Gorky Park Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1981

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