Definition of Cyanines

1. Noun. (plural of cyanine) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cyanines

1. cyanine [n] - See also: cyanine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyanines

cyanide poisoning
cyanide process
cyanide radical
cyanided
cyanidenon
cyanides
cyaniding
cyanidiophyte
cyanidiophytes
cyanidol
cyanids
cyanin
cyanine
cyanine dye
cyanine green G base
cyanines (current term)
cyanins
cyanise
cyanised
cyanises
cyanising
cyanite
cyanites
cyanitic
cyanize
cyanized
cyanizes
cyanizing
cyanmethemoglobin
cyano

Literary usage of Cyanines

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

1. Synthetic Colouring Matters: Dyestuffs Derived from Pyridine, Quinoline by John Theodore Hewitt (1922)
"... and cyanines The first dyes containing the quinoline nucleus were prepared by Greville Williams (Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., 1856, 1857, 2i. ..."

2. Synthetic Colouring Matters: Dyestuffs Derived from Pyridine, Quinoline by John Theodore Hewitt (1922)
"... and cyanines The first dyes containing the quinoline nucleus were prepared by Greville Williams (Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., 1856, 1857, 21, 309, 377), ..."

3. The American Amateur Photographer (1906)
"Some of the older cyanines, especially ethyl-cyanine, act better, ... This new dye differs from the old and the iso- cyanines by its stability to acids, ..."

4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"A further example is found in the work of McCartin,29 who demonstrated the existence of metastable isomeric cyanines under flash excitation. ..."

5. Investigations of Infra-red Spectra by William Weber Coblentz (1905)
"The chemical constitution of cyanines is unknown. ... says of it that "possibly the cyanines ..."

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