reagent
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Noun — A substance used in a laboratory, or sometimes in industry, to test or react with other materials.
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Etymology
Possibly derived from Latin reagō, and comparable to Norwegian Bokmål reagens. The pattern act → action → agent → agency runs in morphological and semantic parallel — and shows an apparent cognate relation — to react → reaction → reagent → reagency.
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