Tracer
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Tracer may refer to:
- Histochemical tracer, a substance used for tracing purposes in histochemistry, the study of the composition of cells and tissues
- Isotopic tracer, a substance with an isotope that has been enriched to a greater level than that found in nature
- Radioactive tracer, a substance containing a radioisotope that is used for tracking purposes
- Flow tracer, any fluid property used to track fluid motion:
- Dye tracer
- In the ocean, salinity, potential temperature, and the concentration of many different chemical compounds
- Tracer ammunition, special bullets that burn brightly to enable the shooter to follow the bullets' trajectories
- Mercury Tracer, an automobile
- TRACER (cosmic ray detector) (Transition Radiation Array for Cosmic Energetic Radiation), a balloon-borne cosmic ray detector
- TRACER (Tactical Reconnaissance and Counter Concealment Enabled Radar) is a mid-range, long wavelength synthetic aperture radar system developed by the United States Army.
- Grumman E-1 Tracer, a carrier-borne early warning aircraft used by the United States Navy in the 1960s.
Entertainment
- Tracer (DC Comics), a DC Comics character
- Tracer (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
- Tracer (Transformers), a fictional character
- Tracers (film), an American action thriller