aniline
noun
a colorless, oily, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 6 H 5 NH 2 , usually derived from nitrobenzene by reduction: used chiefly in the synthesis of dyes and drugs.
anilin
-
a variation of
aniline.
Example Sentences
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Bacteriologists have long used anilin dyes of various colors to " stain " different species of bacteria.
From Time Magazine Archive
It stains with moderate rapidity with the ordinary anilin dyes, and is decolorized by Gram's method.
From Contagious Abortion of Cows by Ward J. MacNeal
The mercuro-nitric solution and Lenhossek's fluid gave excellent fixation and were preferable to the osmic mixtures when it was desirable to stain the same material with iron-hæmatoxylin, and also with various anilin stains.
From Studies in Spermatogenesis Part I by Nettie Maria Stevens
For example, nitric acid will discharge all the color from all bacilli artificially dyed with anilin, except those of tubercle and anthrax.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 by Various
It does not stain by Gram, but takes the ordinary anilin dyes, often presenting, especially the longer forms, a beaded appearance.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
