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Eosin vs Elsin - What's the difference?

eosin | elsin |

As nouns the difference between eosin and elsin

is that eosin is eosin while elsin is (uk|dialect) a shoemaker's awl.

eosin

English

(wikipedia eosin)

Noun

  • (organic compound) A red, acidic dye commonly used in histological stains.
  • * 1999 , Dan J. Goldstein, Understanding the Light Microscope , page 91,
  • Thus the fluorescence of the familiar dye eosin can be excited quite well by ultra-violet or short-wave blue light, but is much better excited by visible green light with a wavelength close to that of the emitted radiation.
  • * 2000 , J. Ochei, A. Kolhatkar, Medical Laboratory Science: Theory And Practice , page 450,
  • Eosins' are acid xanthene or phthalein dyes. '''Eosin''' Y, '''eosin''' B, phloxine and erythrosin (which unlike other ' eosins , is halogenated with iodine), are the common members of this group of dyes.
  • * 2012', John D. Bancroft, Christopher Layton, ''10: The hemotoxylins and '''eosin'' , S. Kim Suvarna, Christopher Layton, John D. Bancroft (editors), ''Bancroft's Theory and Practice of Histological Techniques , 7th Edition, page 173,
  • The hematoxylin and eosin stain (H&E) is the most widely used histological stain.

    Derived terms

    * eosin B * eosin Y *

    Anagrams

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    elsin

    English

    Alternative forms

    * elsen

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A shoemaker's awl.
  • References

    (Webster 1913)