How to Use reagent in a Sentence
reagent
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Then the swab is joined with a test strip and a liquid reagent.
—Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2021
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The children walk hand in hand through a forest of reagents.
—Sandra Simonds, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2020
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But two of the three chemicals, called reagents, didn't work.
—Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 6 Apr. 2020
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To conduct the test, blood is drawn and added to a reagent solution.
—Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 17 May 2017
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Despite all of that, Jilly said there’s still a risk that the state could run out of reagents.
—Author: Kyle Hopkins, Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2020
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The reagent caused the sample to change color according to the amount of sugar present in the urine.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 5 May 2021
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The Abbott kit comes with a nasal swab, reagent solution and a test card.
—Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2021
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The state placed $60 million in bulk orders of testing reagents.
—Elizabeth Depompei, The Indianapolis Star, 10 June 2020
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First the liquid sample is mixed with a liquid reagent.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2017
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But the hospital has too few of the swabs and chemical reagents needed to run the tests, which are in short supply around the globe.
—Catherine Ho, SFChronicle.com, 19 Apr. 2020
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At the end of the experiment the teacher went around and added a reagent to some of the cups, and the liquid in some of the cups turned purple, while the others stayed clear.
—Lux Alptraum, SELF, 6 Sep. 2017
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A sensor is inserted into the small LeadCare unit and the blood-reagent mix is added to the sensor.
—Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 17 May 2017
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To use the BinaxNOW test, a healthcare worker lays the card flat, adds extraction reagent to the test card, and takes a nasal swab from the patient.
—Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Oct. 2020
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But the testing kits require a crucial reagent that the hospital ran short on.
—The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2020
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The reagents are used to isolate the genetic material from the virus.
—Anchorage Daily News, 19 Mar. 2020
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These broths have been developed for decades, and since most cells are grown on plastic, that's what the reagents have been optimized for.
—Alice Bell, CNN, 5 Nov. 2019
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To run clotting tests, labs mix a compound, called reagent, with patient samples.
—Ellen Gabler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2021
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There have been shortages of the cotton swabs needed to do the nasal test as well as the reagent required to mix with the sample in the laboratory.
—Dave Altimari, courant.com, 15 Aug. 2020
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As with fentanyl test strips, these pieces of paper have a reagent that can help users detect whether a drug has any xylaxine in it.
—Nadia Kounang, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
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In February and early March, the testing kits were missing a solution called a reagent, so the tests could not be used.
—Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 19 Mar. 2020
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To administer the test, a healthcare worker opens a card—which is about the size of a driver’s license—and adds a few drops of a liquid called a reagent.
—Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 2 Dec. 2020
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Illinois has three state labs that run tests but Pritzker said not enough tests are available and there is a nationwide shortage of reagent.
—John Tozzi, Bloomberg.com, 15 May 2020
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Results from the test come 15 minutes after performing the nasal swab and placing it inside a card with a test strip and reagent included in the kit.
—John Pana, cleveland, 9 Aug. 2021
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The team found that the basement bathroom was cleaned after utilizing a blue star chemical reagent.
—Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 1 Dec. 2022
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The blockade also disrupted shipments to Qatar of lab reagents and equipment, which came mostly from UAE.
—Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 18 Dec. 2017
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Testing could soon be hampered by a shortage of reagents, caused in part by the disruption of supply chains in Asia, Osterholm notes.
—Science News Staff, Science | AAAS, 1 Apr. 2020
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Hogan said over the weekend that governors were trying to use private labs, but were stymied by shortages of swabs and reagents needed for testing.
—NBC News, 22 Apr. 2020
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The problem, according to doctors, is not so much a lack of donors as a shortage of the seven reagents that test donated blood for infections.
—Rachelle Krygier, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2018
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There was also blood in the hallway and Ruf's bedroom, as well as in the bathroom sink and shower, which police were only able to see after applying a blood reagent.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 20 July 2023
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For those diseases, super-high doses of gene therapy reagents must be delivered.
—Jean Bennett, The Conversation, 12 May 2023
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