They took a black light into the storeroom of their father's drugstore looking for naturally fluorescent organic compounds and from that developed paints.
As with most fluorescent compounds, ethidium bromide is aromatic.
Colored compounds (or fluorescent compounds with the aid of an UV lamp) can be seen through the glass wall as moving bands.
Hoechst stain, one of a family of fluorescent DNA-binding compounds.
Typical tags include: a fluorescent compound, gold beads, a particular epitope tag, or an enzyme that produces a colored compound.
Carunculate seeds are perceived by ants, which see in ultraviolet light, because the caruncle reflects ultra-violet light, the fluorescent compound probably being a phenolic.
In anticipation of future multiplex development and high-throughput processing, each of the unique upstream amplification primers was tagged with one of three fluorescent compounds.
Fingerprints can be visualized with fluorescent compounds such as ninhydrin.
A fluorescent compound is embedded in silicone on the bottom of 16 x 100 mm round bottom tubes.
The fluorescent compound is sensitive to the presence of oxygen dissolved in the broth.