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66721

Methylene Blue zinc chloride double salt

suitable for microscopy, ~1 mol/mol water

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C16H18ClN3S · 0.5ZnCl2 · xH2O
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
388.00 (anhydrous basis)
UNSPSC Code:
12352106
NACRES:
NA.25
PubChem Substance ID:
MDL number:
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
3839953
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Quality Level

impurities

~1 mol/mol water

suitability

suitable for microscopy

SMILES string

O.[Cl-].CN(C)c1ccc2N=C3C=C\C(C=C3Sc2c1)=[N+](/C)C

InChI

1S/C16H18N3S.ClH.H2O/c1-18(2)11-5-7-13-15(9-11)20-16-10-12(19(3)4)6-8-14(16)17-13;;/h5-10H,1-4H3;1H;1H2/q+1;;/p-1

InChI key

WQVSELLRAGBDLX-UHFFFAOYSA-M

Application

Methylene blue is a heterocyclic aromatic chemical compound used as a cationic dye. It is used as a redox indication in analytical chemistry. Methylene blue is a component of a number of staining protocols such as Wright′s stain and Jenner′s stain for microscopic evaluation.


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Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 3 Oral - Eye Irrit. 2

Storage Class

6.1C - Combustible acute toxic Cat.3 / toxic compounds or compounds which causing chronic effects

wgk

WGK 3

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

ppe

dust mask type N95 (US), Eyeshields, Faceshields, Gloves



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K P Krafts et al.
Biotechnic & histochemistry : official publication of the Biological Stain Commission, 86(1), 7-35 (2011-01-18)
The components of the blood stain, eosin and methylene blue, were introduced by Baeyer and Caro, respectively. Methylene blue was used primarily for detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis until Ehrlich in 1880 mixed methylene blue with acid fuchsin to produce what he
Kristine Krafts et al.
Parasitology research, 109(3), 521-529 (2011-06-11)
Methylene blue was synthesized by Caro in 1876 at BASF, a chemical company. Six years later, Koch employed methylene blue when he discovered the tubercle bacillus. In 1880, Ehrlich described what he termed "neutral" dyes: mixtures of acidic and basic
Mohammad A Al-Ghouti et al.
Scientific reports, 10(1), 15928-15928 (2020-09-29)
In the current study, the mechanistic understanding of the adsorption isotherm and thermodynamic aspects of cationic methylene blue (MB) dye adsorption onto cellulosic olive stones biomass from wastewater were investigated. The batch adsorption of MB onto the olive stones (black



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SKUGTIN
66721-100G04061833381014
66721-500G04061833440858
66721-25G04061833417386