What does ninhydrin mean?

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ninhydrin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.22 in modern English

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noun

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

Countable; Uncountable

ninhydrins (plural)

What does ninhydrin mean?: The aromatic compound 2,2-dihydroxyindane-1,3-dione which is used as a reagent to detect amines

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