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xanthene dye

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
xan-thene dye
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a group of brilliant fluorescent yellow to pink to bluish red dyes characterized by the presence of the xanthene nucleus, known sometimes in colorless as well as colored forms, and used chiefly in dyeing textile fibers, in coloring paper, in producing fluorescent effects, and as organic pigments.

Inflected Forms

xanthene dyes (plural)

Questions

What does xanthene dye mean?
Any of a group of brilliant fluorescent yellow to pink to bluish red dyes characterized by the presence of the xanthene nucleus, known sometimes in colorless as well as colored forms, and used chiefly in dyeing textile fibers, in coloring paper, in producing fluorescent effects, and as organic pigments.

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