Multiple choice

Luxol fast blue is used to demonstrate myelin.It is a ---------------------- dye.

  1. Tetrazolium compounds

  2. Thiazole dyes

  3. Xanthene dyes

  4. Phthalocyanine dyes

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Explanation

Xanthene dyes are the group of brilliant fluorescent yellow to pink to bluish red dyes characterized by the presence of the xanthene nucleus, known sometimes in colourless as well as coloured forms, and used chiefly in dyeing textile fibres, in colouring paper, in producing fluorescent effects and as organic pigments.

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