chromogenic
producing color.
Chemistry. pertaining to chromogen or a chromogen.
(of bacteria) producing some characteristic color or pigment that is useful as a means of identification.
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How to use chromogenic in a sentence
It also acts as a chromogenic centre when double bonds or ethylenic linkages are present, as in fluorene ketone or fluorenone.
Considerable advances in our knowledge of the various chromogenic Pigment bacteria.
No means are known by which these coloured spots, due to the growth of chromogenic organisms, can be removed from the rubber.
The Preparation of Plantation Rubber | Sidney MorganTwo or three chromogenic forms producing still other colors have occasionally been found in milk.
Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition | H. L. RussellThe cause of the difficulty has been traced by Connell to the development of a chromogenic bacterium, Bacillus rudensis.
Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition | H. L. Russell
British Dictionary definitions for chromogenic
/ (ˌkrəʊməˈdʒɛnɪk) /
producing colour
of or relating to a chromogen
photog involving the use of chromogens rather than silver halide during processing to produce the image: chromogenic film
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