Meaning

(organic chemistry) The compound 5-amino-2,3-dihydro-1,4-phthalazinedione, which exhibits blue chemiluminescence when mixed with an appropriate oxidizing agent..

Definitions by Sense

1. (organic chemistry) The compound 5-amino-2,3-dihydro-1,4-phthalazinedione, which exhibits blue chemiluminescence when mixed with an appropriate oxidizing agent.
2. (transitive, criminology, law enforcement) To test or subject a sample or an individual to a luminol agent in order to locate traces of blood.

Example Sentences

The board was fully supportive, Mr. McDevitt said, even when Mr. Wheeler needed to buy a gallon of cow’s blood and a supply of luminol, a blood-detection chemical.

Luminoling of material can establish unequivocally that no blood is present.

For two nights Patterson, Frosch, and Nabors Luminoled the house, checking and re-checking the evidence they found.

Perhaps the auto warrant had gone through and the vehicle was being raked and combed and vacuumed and luminoled in some forensic garage.

The crime scene unit was all over the apartment, photographing, luminoling, vacuuming, plucking with tweezers.

Lester brings the hard-shelled golf bag in and Grissom luminols the interior of the case. The whole case fluouresces briefly then immediately fades, indicating the insides were bleached.

"You may not find it," McClure said. He answered Walt's puzzled expression by explaining," We luminoled her." He picked up a tube light from a workstation. "Get the lights," he said.

He sighs. "The cops luminoled everyone at the hospital right after they got there. They all came out clean as a whistle."

Word Forms

• luminols
• luminoling
• luminolling
• luminoled
• luminolled

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Use luminol when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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