fuchsin
noun
a greenish, water-soluble, solid, coal-tar derivative, obtained by the oxidation of a mixture of aniline and the toluidines, that forms deep-red solutions: used chiefly as a dye.
fuchsine
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a variation of
fuchsin.
Example Sentences
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She makes her presence as clearly felt among a million of her sex as does a grain of fuchsine in a hogshead of water.
From The Darrow Enigma by Melvin Linwood Severy
Another class of bodies also concerns our subject: the special sensitisers used by the photographer to modify the spectral distribution of sensibility of the haloid salts, _e.g._ eosine, fuchsine, cyanine.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly
Treatment with fuchsine fails to bring out these formations.
From The Bacillus of Long Life a manual of the preparation and souring of milk for dietary purposes, together with and historical account of the use of fermente by Loudon Douglas
Stain: Gram's method coloured with aqueous fuchsine afterwards.
From The Bacillus of Long Life a manual of the preparation and souring of milk for dietary purposes, together with and historical account of the use of fermente by Loudon Douglas
An aqueous solution of fuchsine is decolorized on the addition of sulphurous acid, the easily soluble fuchsine sulphurous acid being formed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
