cyanine dye

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   any of a class of dyes containing a -CH= group linking two heterocyclic rings containing nitrogen; used as sensitizers in photography

   Broaderdye

Questions about cyanine dye

What does cyanine dye mean?

cyanine dye means "any of a class of dyes containing a -CH= group linking two heterocyclic rings containing nitrogen; used as sensitizers in photography".

Is cyanine dye a common word?

cyanine dye is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.