chromogenic

[ kroh-muh-jen-ik ]

adjective

1. producing color.
2. Chemistry. pertaining to chromogen or a chromogen.
3. (of bacteria) producing some characteristic color or pigment that is useful as a means of identification.

chromogenic

/ ˌkrəʊməˈdʒɛnɪk /

adjective

1. producing colour
2. of or relating to a chromogen
3. photog involving the use of chromogens rather than silver halide during processing to produce the image

   chromogenic film

Word History and Origins

Origin of chromogenic¹

First recorded in 1880–85; chromo- + -genic

Example Sentences

It also acts as a chromogenic centre when double bonds or ethylenic linkages are present, as in fluorene ketone or fluorenone.

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Considerable advances in our knowledge of the various chromogenic Pigment bacteria.

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No means are known by which these coloured spots, due to the growth of chromogenic organisms, can be removed from the rubber.

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Two or three chromogenic forms producing still other colors have occasionally been found in milk.

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The cause of the difficulty has been traced by Connell to the development of a chromogenic bacterium, Bacillus rudensis.

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