chromogenic

chromogenic [kroh-muh-jen-ik] ExamplesWord Origin adjective

1. producing color.
2. Chemistry. pertaining to chromogen or a chromogen.
3. (of bacteria) producing some characteristic color or pigment that is useful as a means of identification.

Origin of chromogenic First recorded in 1880–85; chromo- + -genic Examples from the Web for chromogenic Historical Examples of chromogenic

Two or three chromogenic forms producing still other colors have occasionally been found in milk.

Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition

H. L. Russell

The cause of the difficulty has been traced by Connell to the development of a chromogenic bacterium, Bacillus rudensis.

Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition

H. L. Russell

No means are known by which these coloured spots, due to the growth of chromogenic organisms, can be removed from the rubber.

The Preparation of Plantation Rubber

Sidney Morgan

It also acts as a chromogenic centre when double bonds or ethylenic linkages are present, as in fluorene ketone or fluorenone.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1

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British Dictionary definitions for chromogenic chromogenic adjective

1. producing colour
2. of or relating to a chromogen
3. photog involving the use of chromogens rather than silver halide during processing to produce the imagechromogenic film

chromogenic in Medicine chromogenic [krō′mə-jĕn′ĭk] adj.

1. Of or relating to a chromogen or to chromogenesis.