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reagent

[ree-ay-juhnt] / riˈeɪ dʒənt /
NOUN
litmus paper
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Elevated diesel prices will drive up costs of everything from contract mining, consumables, reagent freight and contract haulage to export logistics, shipping and mine-site aviation, it says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

But a blood enhancement chemical reagent uncovered a footwear mark and drag mark on the floor.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026

In a statement, a spokesperson for the company said the replacement reagent had been approved by the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2025

The researchers utilized potassium xanthate instead of hydrogen sulfide, owing to its better reactivity in aryne reactions and pentafluorophenyl bromide as an electrophilic brominating reagent.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024

Apparently Natalie didn’t know what a reagent was either.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

She demonstrates the process by placing electronic components in a chemical bath and adding reagents one by one until a fine gold powder forms.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

That’s after rain restricted access to its Honeymoon mine in South Australia, temporarily halting supplies of reagents and other goods needed for production.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

You keep using the same reagents and equipment to avoid white noise.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2025

The startup says it could save pathology labs significant time and resources, as well as reduce labs’ footprint in toxic reagents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2024

In two years, astonishingly, Mendel had produced a set of reagents that would allow him to interrogate some of the most important features of heredity.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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