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Crystal Violet

Definition: Crystal Violet

Crystal Violet

Noun

1. A green crystal (violet in water) used as a dye or stain or bactericide or fungicide or anthelmintic or burn treatment.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Crystal Violet

Synonym: gentian violet (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Crystal Violet

Specialty definitions using "crystal violet": Gram-Negative Bacteria, Gram-Positive Bacteria, Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections, Gram-Positive Cocci, Gram-Positive Rods. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Crystal Violet

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Books

  • Determining the Rate Law for the Crystal Violet - Hydroxide Ion Reaction (reference)

  • Antimony in effluents and raw, potable and sea waters by spectrophotometry (using crystal violet) 1982 : tentative method (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Crystal Violet

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Gram-stain technique, which employs crystal violet as the primary stain, imparts a purplish-brown color to bacteria that stain Gram-positive. Those that stain with the pink-red fuchsin counterstain are said to stain Gram-negative. Credit: CDC.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Crystal Violet

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

crystal violet

15
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Crystal Violet

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-l-o-r-s-t-t-v-y"

-2 letters: crystallite, vectorially, vorticellas.

-3 letters: allosteric, erotically, rotatively, sclerotial, societally, sterically, vertically, viscerally, vortically, vorticella.

-4 letters: allostery, allotters, astrocyte, callosity, cavillers, cloistral, coevality, collarets, costively, coveralls, cryolites, littorals, localites, locatives, loricates, loyalties, oscillate, overcalls, rocailles, royalties, sclerotia, sectorial, stoically, tactilely, teocallis, tortillas, vectorial, verticals, violaters, volatiles.

-5 letters: acolytes, actively, allotter, allovers, articles, atrocity, calories, calottes.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-l-o-r-s-t-t-v-y"
 

+5 letters: overoptimistically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Crystal Violet


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 72 79 73 74 61 6C      56 69 6F 6C 65 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01110010 01111001 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101100 00100000 01010110 01101001 01101111 01101100 01100101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#114 &#121 &#115 &#116 &#97 &#108 &#32 &#86 &#105 &#111 &#108 &#101 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0072 0079 0073 0074 0061 006C      0056 0069 006F 006C 0065 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

378491858667782567581787186

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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