reagent

See also: reägent

English

Alternative forms

• reägent (rare)

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Possibly from Latin reagō. 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 or test materials, samples, other compounds or reactants in a laboratory or sometimes an industrial setting.

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 (hy) (ṙeagent), ազդանյութ (hy) (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 (ja) (しやく, shiyaku)
• Manx: ym-obbree

• Maori: matū tauhohe
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: reagens (no) m or n

  Nynorsk: reagens m or n

• Polish: reagent (pl) m inan
• 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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Polish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛˈa.ɡɛnt/

Noun

reagent m inan

1. reactant
2. reagent

   Synonym: odczynnik

Declension

declension of reagent

	singular	plural
nominative	reagent	reagenty
genitive	reagenta	reagentów
dative	reagentowi	reagentom
accusative	reagent	reagenty
instrumental	reagentem	reagentami
locative	reagencie	reagentach
vocative	reagencie	reagenty

Related terms

• (adjective): reagentowy (rare)

Further reading

• reagent in Polish dictionaries at PWN