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Medical Definition of Diazonium salts
1. Salt's of a theoretical base R-≡N or R-N==NOH useful in histochemistry to demonstrate tissue phenols and aryl amines or with enzymatically released naphthols and naphthylamines to form the chromophore azo group -N==N-; diazonium salt's contain only one R-≡N group, tetrazonium salt's contain two, and hexazonium salt's contain three; examples include fast garnet GBC base and naphthol AS. (05 Mar 2000)