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DIAZO (diazoes)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diazo mean? 

DIAZO (adjective)
  The adjective DIAZO has 1 sense:

1. relating to or containing diazoniumplay

  Familiarity information: DIAZO used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DIAZO (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or containing diazonium

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

diazonium (the univalent cation R-N:N- (where R is an aromatic hydrocarbon); found in salts that are used in manufacturing azo dyes)


 Context examples 


The sodium salt of benzidinediazo-bis-1-naphthylamine-4-sulfonic acid; a diazo dye that is red in alkaline solution and blue in acid solution and used especially as an indicator and as a biological stain.

(Congo Red, NCI Thesaurus)

A naturally occurring serine derivative diazo compound with antineoplastic properties, Azaserine functions as a purine antagonist and glutamine analogue (glutamine amidotransferase inhibitor) that competitively inhibits pathways in which glutamine is metabolized.

(Azaserine, NCI Thesaurus)

An antineoplastic-antibiotic diazo analog of L-glutamine isolated from the bacterium Streptomyces ambofaciens.

(Azotomycin, NCI Thesaurus)

An L-glutamine diazo analogue amino acid antibiotic isolated from a species of the bacterial genus Streptomyces with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Diazooxonorleucine, NCI Thesaurus)

A dye consisting of a diazotized benzidine nucleus that can have a wide variety of colors depending on the chemical groups attached at the diazo linkages.

(Benzidine Containing Dye, NCI Thesaurus)

The salt form of diazo compounds, compounds containing the N2 nitrogen attached to only one hydrocarbon, formulated by replacing three hydrogen atoms of the salt of an aryl primary amine by nitrogen having the general structure represented as R-N2X.

(Diazonium Compounds, NCI Thesaurus)



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