reactant: A substance participating in a chemical reaction, especially a directly reacting substance present at the initiation of the reaction. reagent: A substance used in a chemical reaction to detect, measure, examine, or produce other substances.

reagent. Noun. (plural reagents) (chemistry) A usually available or readily made compound or known mixture of compounds used to treat materials, samples, other compounds or reactants in a laboratory or sometimes an industrial setting.

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