fluorescent dye

Questions about fluorescent dye

What does fluorescent dye mean?

fluorescent dye means "a yellow dye that is visible even when highly diluted; used as an absorption indicator when silver nitrate solution is added to sodium chloride in order to precipitate silver chloride (turns pink when no chloride ions are left in solution and negative fluorescein ions are then absorbed)".

What is another word for fluorescent dye?

Close synonyms include fluorescein, fluoresceine, resorcinolphthalein. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fluorescent dye a common word?

fluorescent 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.