Rhodamine B is a chemical compound and a dye. It is often used as a tracer dye within water to determine the rate and direction of flow and transport. Rhodamine dyes fluoresce and can thus be detected easily and inexpensively with fluorometers.

What is rhodamine used for?

Rhodamine dyes fluoresce and can thus be detected easily and inexpensively with instruments called fluorometers. Rhodamine dyes are used extensively in biotechnology applications such as fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and ELISA.

What kind of dye is Rhodamine B?

A strong, bright red Fluorescent dye. Rhodamine B is a Basic dye that was developed in 1887 by Ceresole. It is used as Textile and Paper dye, as a pigment, and as a staining reagent for the detection of fats and oils.