Product Profile of Yellow Auramine Chemical Powder
Yellow Auramine Chemical Powder is a diarylmethane dye used as a fluorescent stains in its pure form and appears as yellow needle crystals. The Auramine Chemical Powder is soluble in water and ethanol. The Auramine Chemical Powder can be used to stain acid-fast bacteria where it binds to the mycolic acid in its cell wall. The Yellow Auramine Chemical Powder can be used together with Rhodamine B as the Truant auramine-rhodamine stain for Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Applications of the Yellow Auramine Chemical Powder:
- Diarylmethane dye used as a fluorescent stain.
- In its pure form, Auramine O appears as yellow needle crystals.
- It is very soluble in water and soluble in ethanol.
- Auramine O can be used to stain acid-fast bacteria, where it binds to the mycolic acid in its cell wall in a way similar to Ziehl-Neelsen stain.
- It can also be used as a fluorescent version of Schiff reagent.
- Auramine O can be used together with Rhodamine B as the Truant auramine-rhodamine stain for Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
- It can be also used as an antiseptic agent.
- Auramine O can be used in the dyeing of acrylic fibres, silk and cotton fibre; also applied in the dyeing of leather, paper, hemp and viscose
- Auramine O can also be used in the direct printing and blotch discharge printing of tannin mordant dyed cotton and also used to produce colour lake and used in inks.