reagent

See also: reägent

English

Alternative forms

• reägent (rare)

Etymology

Possibly from Latin reagere. Compare with Norwegian Bokmål reagens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹi.ˈeɪ.dʒɛnt/

• English (Canada)

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Noun

reagent (plural reagents)

1. (chemistry) A compound or mixture of compounds used to treat materials, samples, other compounds or reactants in a laboratory or sometimes an industrial setting.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Benedict's reagent
• Brady's reagent
• Edman's reagent
• Ehrlich's reagent

• Froehde reagent
• Grignard reagent
• Kovac's reagent
• Liebermann reagent

• Melzer's reagent
• Molisch's reagent
• Sanger's reagent
• van Urk reagent

Translations

substance used in chemical reactions

• Armenian: ռեագենտ (ṙeagent), ազդանյութ (azdanyutʿ)
• Catalan: reactiu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 試劑 (zh), 试剂 (zh) (shìjì)

• Czech: činidlo n
• Dutch: reagens (nl) n
• Finnish: reagenssi (fi) (chemistry)
• French: réactif (fr) m
• German: Edukt (de) n, Reagenz (de) n
• Ido: reaktivo (io)
• Italian: reagente (it) m, reattivo (it)
• Japanese: 試薬 (しやく, shiyaku)
• Manx: ym-obbree

• Maori: matū tauhohe
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: reagens (no) m, n

  Nynorsk: reagens m, n

• Polish: reagent (pl) m
• Portuguese: reagente (pt) m, reativo (pt)
• Romanian: reactant (ro) m
• Russian: реаге́нт (ru) m (reagént), реакти́в (ru) m (reaktív)
• Spanish: reactivo (es) m
• Swedish: reagens (sv) n
• Tagalog: pamalibilos
• Turkish: reaktif (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• reagent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• grantee, greaten, negater, rentage

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Latin

Verb

reagent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of reageō