reagent

See also: reägent

English

Alternative forms

• reägent (rare)

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Possibly from Latin reagō. Compare with Norwegian Bokmål reagens. The sequence of act → action → agent → agency shows morphologic and semantic parallel, and apparent cognate relation, with react → reaction → reagent → reagency.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹiˈeɪ.d͡ʒənt/

• English (Canada):

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Noun

reagent (plural reagents)

1. (chemistry) 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.

Derived terms

• affinity reagent
• Benedict's reagent
• Bertrand's reagent
• bioreagent
• Brady's reagent
• Edman's reagent
• Ehrlich's reagent
• Fenton's reagent
• Froehde reagent
• Gilman reagent
• Grignard reagent
• immunoreagent
• Kagan's reagent
• Karl Fischer reagent
• Kovac's reagent
• Lawesson's reagent
• Liebermann reagent
• Marquis reagent
• Mayer's reagent
• Melzer's reagent
• Molisch's reagent
• monoreagent
• nanoreagent
• photoreagent
• reagentless
• Ruppert–Prakash reagent
• Sanger's reagent
• Schweizer's reagent
• Sonnenschein's reagent
• Tollens' reagent
• van Urk reagent

Related terms

• reagency

Translations

substance used in chemical reactions

• Armenian: ռեագենտ (hy) (ṙeagent), ազդանյութ (hy) (azdanyutʻ)
• Bulgarian: реактив m (reaktiv)
• Catalan: reactiu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 試劑 / 试剂 (zh) (shìjì)

• Czech: činidlo n
• Dutch: reagens (nl) n
• Finnish: reagenssi (fi) (chemistry)
• French: réactif (fr) m
• German: Edukt (de) n, Reagenz (de) n
• Ido: reaktivo (io)
• Italian: reagente (it) m, reattivo (it)
• Japanese: 試薬 (ja) (しやく, shiyaku)
• Khmer: ប្រតិករ (praʼtekɑɑ), ធាតុបន្ទាល់ (thiət bɑntŏəl)
• Manx: ym-obbree
• Māori: matū tauhohe
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: reagens (no) m or n

  Nynorsk: reagens m or n

• Polish: reagent (pl) m inan, odczynnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: reagente (pt) m, reativo (pt)
• Romanian: reactant (ro) m
• Russian: реаге́нт (ru) m (reagént), реакти́в (ru) m (reaktív)
• Spanish: reactivo (es) m
• Swedish: reagens (sv) n
• Tagalog: pamalibilos
• Turkish: reaktif (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: معیار (miʼyâr)

• Vietnamese: thuốc thử (vi)

Further reading

• reagent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• grantee, greaten, negater, rentage

Polish

Etymology

Internationalism; compare English reagent. By surface analysis, re- +‎ agent; however, the term agent does not have a chemical meaning.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛˈa.ɡɛnt/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aɡɛnt
• Syllabification: re‧a‧gent

Noun

reagent m inan

1. reactant
2. reagent

   Synonym: odczynnik

Declension

Declension of reagent

	singular	plural
nominative	reagent	reagenty
genitive	reagenta	reagentów
dative	reagentowi	reagentom
accusative	reagent	reagenty
instrumental	reagentem	reagentami
locative	reagencie	reagentach
vocative	reagencie	reagenty

Related terms

adjective

• reagentowy

Further reading

• “reagent”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)

Romanian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin reagens.

Noun

reagent m (plural reagenți)

1. reagent

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	reagent	reagentul	reagenți	reagenții
genitive-dative	reagent	reagentului	reagenți	reagenților
vocative	reagentule		reagenților