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What is a bisulfite?

What is a bisulfite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (inorganic chemistry) The univalent group -HSO3, or any salt containing it.
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He will establish a panel of genomic markers of methylation analysable by the technique of sequencing after bisulfite treatment.
Description: Wood chips were placed in this digester to separate wood fibers during the cooking process using bisulfite to produce chemical pulp.
Perhaps bisulfite in the erythrocytes interacts with these cysteine residues and inhibits enzyme activity.
Benzaldehyde is readily oxidized to benzoic acid and is converted to addition products by hydrocyanic acid or sodium bisulfite.
I held the saturated bisulfite solution at arms length and slowly added the sulfuric acid.
Anions such as bisulfite can deaminate cytosine to form uracil, changing the genetic message by causing C-to-T transitions.

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