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    Crystal violet or gentian violet, also known as methyl violet 10B or hexamethyl pararosaniline chloride, is a triarylmethane dye used as a histological...
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  • changes to violet with pH increasing toward 3.2. Methyl violet 10B has six methyl groups. It is known in medicine as Gentian violet (or crystal violet or pyoctanin(e))...
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    retains the primary stain, crystal violet. Gram-negative cells have a thinner peptidoglycan layer that allows the crystal violet to wash out on addition...
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    Crystal violet lactone (CVL) is a leuco dye, a lactone derivate of crystal violet 10B. In pure state it is a slightly yellowish crystalline powder, soluble...
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    principal stain. Crystal violet stains both Gram positive and Gram negative organisms. Treatment with alcohol removes the crystal violet colour from gram...
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    change color. The media inhibits growth of gram-positive organisms with crystal violet and bile salts, allowing for the selection and isolation of gram-negative...
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    have a thin layer of peptidoglycan. Gram-positive bacteria take up the crystal violet stain used in the test, and then appear to be purple-coloured when seen...
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  • have a thick peptidoglycan layer in their cell wall, which retains the crystal violet during Gram staining, resulting in a purple color. Gram-negative bacteria...
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    and therefore appear colorful. Another example of a leuco dye is the crystal violet lactone, which in its lactone form is colorless or slightly yellowish...
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    samples are often yellow. It is an important precursor to dyes such as crystal violet. DMA was first reported in 1850 by the German chemist A. W. Hofmann...
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    are bacteria that, unlike gram-positive bacteria, do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation...
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    useful material for the removal of colouring agents (such as crystal violet, methyl violet 2B and methylene blue ) from dye wastewater. The tarap stem...
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    Türk's solution (or Türk's fluid) is a hematological stain (either crystal violet or aqueous methylene blue) prepared in 99% acetic acid (glacial) and...
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    thermochromic droplets are actually a mixture of several chemicals—crystal violet lactone (the color-changing dye itself), benzotriazole (a weak acid)...
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    (CC)C)C=C2)/C1=C C=C(N(C)C)C=C1. Ethyl green is made of crystal violet by adding an ethyl group; crystal violet is therefore a possible contaminant. Methyl green...
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    Mycobacteria, can be stained with the Gram stain, but they do not take the crystal violet well and thus appear light purple, which can still potentially result...
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  • differential staining is the Gram stain. Gram staining uses two dyes: Crystal violet and Fuchsin or Safranin (the counterstain) to differentiate between...
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  • Christian Gram in 1884, is required. The bacteria are stained with the dyes crystal violet and safranin. Gram positive cells are purple after staining, while Gram...
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    take up the Gram stain and counter-stain; bacteria that take up the crystal violet dye stain are referred to as "gram-positive," those that take up the...
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    Commercial Methyl green preparations are often contaminated with Crystal violet. Crystal violet can be removed by chloroform extraction. Carnoy JB (1884). La...
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  • the cationic dyes (say crystal violet) vary even though the name of the dye does not. Often it is shown as chloride. Methyl violet dyes have dimethylamino...
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    use in microbiology, such as simple stains (methylene blue, safranin, crystal violet) and differential stains (negative stains, flagellar stains, endospore...
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    useful against tinea versicolour. Clioquinol Coal tar Copper(II) sulfate Crystal violet – a triarylmethane dye. It has antibacterial, antifungal, and anthelmintic...
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  • soap Chlorhexidine Chlorine dioxide 2-Chlorophenol Creolin Cresolene Crystal violet DBDMH Diazolidinyl urea Electrolysed water Ethanol Cartels Eucalyptus...
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    eosin counterstain to haematoxylin in the H&E stain. In Gram staining, crystal violet stains only Gram-positive bacteria, and safranin counterstain is applied...
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    turn out to be useful." A Gram stain is made using a primary stain of crystal violet and a counterstain of safranin. Bacteria that turn purple when stained...
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    remarkably strong trichroism, appearing alternately blue, violet and burgundy depending on crystal orientation. Tanzanite can also appear differently when...
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  • peptidoglycan layer, which is responsible for the retention of the crystal violet dyes during the Gram staining procedure. It is found exclusively in...
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    Clostridium Photomicrograph of Clostridium botulinum bacteria stained with crystal violet Scientific classification Domain: Bacteria Phylum: Bacillota Class:...
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    Supravital dyes for RBCs: New methylene blue Brilliant cresyl blue Crystal violet Methyl violet Nile blue Hoechst stain "English Medical Dictionary". N. Chandler...
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