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Chemical Actions and Uses > Specialty Uses of Chemicals > Coloring Agents > Chromogenic Compounds
Chemical Actions and Uses > Specialty Uses of Chemicals > Laboratory Chemicals > Indicators and Reagents > Chromogenic Compounds

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Chromogenic Compounds  

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  • Chromogenic Compound
  • Compound, Chromogenic

Scope note

  • Colorless, endogenous or exogenous pigment precursors that may be transformed by biological mechanisms into colored compounds; used in biochemical assays and in diagnosis as indicators, especially in the form of enzyme substrates. Synonym: chromogens (not to be confused with pigment-synthesizing bacteria also called chromogens).

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D002863

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