n. A usually available or readily made compound or known mixture of compounds used to treat materials, samples, other compounds or reactants in a laboratory or sometimes an industrial setting.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A substance capable of producing with another a reaction, especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies; a test.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. One who or that which exerts reflex action or influence; an agency that produces reciprocal effects; a cause or source of counter-results.
n. In chem., a substance used to effect chemical change in another substance for the purpose of identifying its component parts or of ascertaining its percentage composition.
n. Anything used for the treatment of a substance under investigation to render its nature or condition more evident.
n. In experimental psychology: The observer in any form of psychological experiment: opposed to experimenter.
n. Same as reactor.
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n. a chemical agent for use in chemical reactions
Word Usage
"The most remarkable feature of Tebbe's reagent is a methylene group bridging between titanium and aluminum, which could replace the oxygen in a carbonyl group in a Wittig-like reaction."