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Uncommon card · Science
Crystal violet, an Uncommon card
Crystal violet or gentian violet, also known as methyl violet 10B or hexamethyl pararosaniline chloride, is a triarylmethane dye used as a histological stain and in Gram's method of classifying bacteria.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 75
- Power
- 147
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 64,000
Power 147 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Crystal violet quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Crystal violet card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Crystal violet has antibacterial, antifungal, and anthelmintic properties and was formerly important as a ______ antiseptic.
Answer
topical. Crystal violet has antibacterial, antifungal, and anthelmintic properties and was formerly important as a topical antiseptic. From the Crystal violet article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Cauchy stress tensor. Cauchy stress tensor 78 · Alcuin 75 · Crystal violet 72 · Pax Mongolica 68 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Crystal violet has antibacterial, antifungal, and anthelmintic properties and was formerly important as a topical antiseptic.
- The medical use of the dye has been largely superseded by more modern drugs, although it is still listed by the World Health Organization.
- The name gentian violet was once used for a mixture of methyl pararosaniline dyes, but it is considered a synonym for crystal violet.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Crystal violet article was read about 64,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 75: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Crystal violet
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below Crystal violet in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Frances BurneyUncommon · Arts · ATK 79 DEF 68
- HuelvaUncommon · Society · ATK 72 DEF 75
- Pablo CasalsUncommon · Arts · ATK 74 DEF 73
- CullingUncommon · Nature · ATK 73 DEF 74
- Pax MongolicaUncommon · History · ATK 68 DEF 79
- Gas lightingUncommon · Science · ATK 76 DEF 71
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Crystal violet (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NEUROtiker, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
