eosin
noun
a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
eosine
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a variation of
eosin.
Example Sentences
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The colour of these colour lakes is quite independent of what oxide is used, depending only on that of the particular eosine dye employed.
From The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student by Franklin Beech
Jenner's stain consists of a solution in methyl alcohol of the precipitate formed by adding eosine to methylene blue.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers
The intensity of some of the aniline colors may be indicated by the fact that a single grain of eosine in ten millions of water exhibits a definite rose-pink color.
The bluish shades of eosine colors, on the contrary, have an absorption band further in the yellow.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 by Various
Rosolic acid and coralline, as well as eosine, are turned by hydrochloric acid to an orange-yellow: the two former are distinguished from eosine by their shade, which inclines to a yellow.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 by Various
