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Aminoacridine

A yellow dye of the acridine family (aminacrine), used as a topical antiseptic: chemist Adrien Albert worked extensively on these antiseptics, and by 1946 an aminacrine cream already featured in an Australian hospital formulary. This family brings together other impurities.

Did you know?It is one of the most fluorescent substances known: in water it gives a faintly yellow solution glowing bluish-violet. Today it also serves as a pH probe inside cells and as a matrix for MALDI mass spectrometry.