auraminen.
/ˈɔːrəmɪn//ˈɔːrəmiːn/ Chemistry.
A synthetic yellow dyestuff of the diphenylmethane series.
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1884 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 46 1450 Auramine..is the first artificial yellow dye which can be fixed on the vegetable fibre with tannic acid like aniline dyes... Auramine also becomes fixed on wool, giving colours of great purity.
1888 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 54 156 Commercial auramine is the hydrochloride of a base obtained by the action of ammonium chloride on tetramethyldiamidobenzophenone.
1920 C. F. Cross & E. J. Bevan Text-bk. Paper-making (ed. 5) ix. 269 Auramine Yellow, very largely employed in paper dyeing, stands near but not in this group, being a derivative of diphenylmethane.
1963 Lancet 5 Jan. 24/2 It is analogous to the detection of isolated tubercle bacilli in sputum after their staining with an auramine-rhodamine dye combination.
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