Definition of Sensitizer

1. Noun. (chemistry) a substance other than a catalyst that facilitates the start of a catalytic reaction.

Exact synonyms: Sensitiser
Category relationships: Chemical Science, Chemistry
Generic synonyms: Activator
Derivative terms: Sensitise, Sensitise, Sensitize

Definition of Sensitizer

1. n. An agent that sensitizes.

Definition of Sensitizer

1. Noun. Any agent that sensitizes something. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sensitizer

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Sensitizer

1. An agent that sensitizes. "The sensitizer should be poured on the middle of the sheet." ) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sensitizer

sensitive plant
sensitive species
sensitively
sensitiveness
sensitivenesses
sensitives
sensitivities
sensitivity
sensitivity and specificity
sensitivity training group
sensitivity training groups
sensitization
sensitizations
sensitize
sensitized
sensitizer (current term)
sensitizers
sensitizes
sensitizing
sensitizing dose
sensitizing injection
sensitizing substance
sensitometer
sensitometers
sensitometric
sensitometries
sensitometry
sensitory
sensive
sensomobile

Literary usage of Sensitizer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Studies in Immunity by Jules Bordet (1909)
"When corpuscles are added the sensitizer unites with them, dragging after it the alexin fixed by its other pole. The amount of alexin that can affect the ..."

2. Infection and Resistance: An Exposition of the Biological Phenomena by Hans Zinsser, Stewart Woodford Young (1914)
"Cells + sensitizer + heated bovine serum = slight agglutination; ... Ceils + sensitizer + alexin + bovine serum = powerful agglutination and complete ..."

3. Infection and Resistance: An Exposition of the Biological Phenomena by Hans Zinsser, Stewart Woodford Young (1914)
"Cells + sensitizer + heated bovine serum = slight agglutination; no very slight ... Cells + sensitizer + alexin + bo-vine serum = powerful agglutination and ..."

4. Infection and Resistance: An Exposition of the Biological Phenomena by Hans Zinsser, Stewart Woodford Young (1918)
"To eliminate the uncertain elements obtaining in ^experiments in which normal sensitizer is used they now experimented with guinea pig corpuscles, ..."

5. Experimental Wireless Stations: Their Theory, Design, Construction and by Philip E. Edelman (1922)
"... Magnetic Tube sensitizer; Short Wave Oscillating Receiver; New Circuits. , TIME SIGNAL FIXED SET It is possible to arrange a fixed adjustment set to ..."

6. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"The anthracenes fail to follow a monotonie decrease of quantum yield with sensitizer energy, suggesting that T2 of anthracenes is, at least in part, ..."

7. Collodion Emulsion and Its Applications to Various Photographic and Photo by Henry Oscar Klein (1905)
"sensitizer " RR " is, if compared with ethyl violet, inferior in speed and ... sensitizer " GG " used for the yellow printer has to be exposed behind a ..."

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