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stain

Coloured compound that will bind to other substances. Stains are used extensively in microbiology to colour micro-organisms, in histochemistry to detect the presence and whereabouts in plant and animal tissue of substances such as fats, cellulose, and proteins, and in biochemistry to reveal the location of biomolecules, as in gel electrophoresis.



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The stain of illegitimacy, unbleached by nobility or wealth, would have been a stain indeed.
Emma by Austen, Jane View in context
And later, as she read aloud to him from "The Princess," he chanced to notice the stain of the cherries on her lips.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
He had left his laboratory to the care of an assistant, cleared his fine countenance from the furnace smoke, washed the stain of acids from his fingers, and persuaded a beautiful woman to become his wife.
Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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