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SULFANILIC ACID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sulfanilic acid mean? 

SULFANILIC ACID (noun)
  The noun SULFANILIC ACID has 1 sense:

1. a crystalline acid made from aniline and used as a dyeplay

  Familiarity information: SULFANILIC ACID used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SULFANILIC ACID (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A crystalline acid made from aniline and used as a dye

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

sulfanilic acid; sulphanilic acid

Hypernyms ("sulfanilic acid" is a kind of...):

acid (any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt)


 Context examples 


Direct Bilirubin in biological fluids reacts with sulfanilic acid at acidic pH to produce a red colored complex.

(Direct Bilirubin Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

Bilirubin is in the insoluble form, unconjugated bilirubin (indirect bilirubin).The non-water soluble, free bilirubin does not react with sulfanilic acid at acidic pH to produce a red colored complex until an accelearator, alcohol, is added to the solution to perform a quantitative measurement of unconjugated bilirubin levels.

(Indirect Bilirubin Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)



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