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hemicyanine

hemicyanine noun: any of a class of dyes having two aromatic groups linked by an ethylene group.

Noun

hemicyanine (plural hemicyanines)

  1. Any of a class of dyes having two aromatic groups linked by an ethylene group
    • This study uses di-4-ANE(F)PPTEA, a hemicyanine class dye, that embeds itself in the cellular membranes of hiPS-CM and exhibits a proportional increase in fluorescence intensity as the voltage across the membrane increases.2015 December 23, “Supervised Machine Learning for Classification of the Electrophysiological Effects of Chronotropic Drugs on Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes”, in PLOS...

Forms of hemicyanine

pluralhemicyanines

Origin of hemicyanine

From hemi- + cyanine.

Questions about hemicyanine

What does hemicyanine mean?
Hemicyanine means any of a class of dyes having two aromatic groups linked by an ethylene group.
What part of speech is hemicyanine?
Hemicyanine is a noun.
What is the plural of hemicyanine?
The plural of hemicyanine is hemicyanines.

Words near hemicyanine in the dictionary

  1. hemicryptophytic
  2. hemicrypts
  3. hemicrystalline
  4. hemicube
  5. hemicubes
  6. hemicyanine
  7. hemicyanines
  8. hemicycle
  9. hemicycles
  10. hemicyclic
  11. hemicylinder

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