Reagent vs Ingredient - What's the difference?
reagent | ingredient |
(chemistry) A compound or mixture of compounds used to treat materials, samples, other compounds or reactants in a laboratory or sometimes an industrial setting.
One of the substances present in a mixture.
* Sir Isaac Newton
* Arbuthnot
As nouns the difference between reagent and ingredient
is that reagent is while ingredient is ingredient.reagent
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*Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* Benedict's reagent * Brady's reagent * Edman's reagent * Ehrlich's reagent * Froehde reagent * Grignard reagent * Kovac's reagent * Liebermann reagent * Melzer's reagent * Molisch's reagent * Sanger's reagent * van Urk reagentExternal links
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* (l), (l) Chemical reagents ----ingredient
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(en noun)- By way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients .
- Water is the chief ingredient in all the animal fluids and solids.