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. The sequence of act → action → agent → agency shows morphologic and semantic parallel, and apparent cognate relation, with react → reaction → reagent → reagency.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹi.ˈeɪ.dʒənt/

• 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

 

Related terms

• reagency

Translations

substance used in chemical reactions

• Armenian: ռեագենտ (hy) (ṙeagent), ազդանյութ (hy) (azdanyutʿ)
• Bulgarian: реактив m (reaktiv)
• 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)
• Khmer: ប្រតិករ (praʼtekɑɑ), ធាតុបន្ទាល់ (thiət bɑntŏəl)
• Manx: ym-obbree

• Maori: matū tauhohe
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: reagens (no) m or n

  Nynorsk: reagens m or n

• Polish: reagent (pl) m inan, odczynnik (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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Polish

Etymology

Internationalism; compare English reagent. By surface analysis, re- +‎ agent, however the term agent does not have a chemical meaning.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛˈa.ɡɛnt/

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• Rhymes: -aɡɛnt
• Syllabification: re‧a‧gent

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

 

Further reading

• reagent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• reagent in Polish dictionaries at PWN