reägent

A form of reagent — A compound or mixture of compounds used to treat or test materials, samples, other compounds or reactants in a laboratory or sometimes an industrial setting.

Meanings

nounreägent (plural reägents)

plural reägents

  1. rareRare spelling of reagent.

    Test, n.…(Chem.) Reägent.

    1871, Richard Soule, A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions, page 406/1 s.v. “Test, n.”
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    The City authorities have made prolonged and numerous experiments on sulphate of alumina, which seemed to present greater practical advantages for the purification of sewage water than quicklime and other reägents already known in France and England.

    1876, Robert Manning, transl., Purification of the Seine, page 25

    Dr. Frankland…having submitted to analysis different reägents tried or proposed, has found that on an average they extract from sewage water only 37 per cent. of the organic nitrogen contained in it.

    ibidem, page 26

    The Finns…are being forcibly dissolved in the Muscovite dominion by powerful reägents, by Russian schoolmasters, a Russian priesthood, Russian military service.

    1911, Ellen Churchill Semple, chapter IV, in Influences of Geographic Environment, page 119
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