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12 words match “CONINE”

CONINE n.
A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called al…
FALCONINE a.
Like a falcon or hawk; belonging to the Falconidæ
PARACONINE n.
A base resembling and isomeric with conine, and obtained as a colorless liquid from butyric aldehyde and ammonia.
CONEINE n.
See Conine.
CONHYDRINE n.
A vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily convertible into conine.
CONIA n.
Same as Conine.
CONIINE n.
See Conine.
CONYLENE n.
An oily substance, C8H14, obtained from several derivatives of conine.
CONYRINE n.
A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine.
PARA- n.
bles, but is distinct from, that to the name of which it is prefixed; as paraldehyde, paraconine, etc.; also, an isomeric modification. (b) Specifically: (Organ. Chem.) That two groups or radicals substituted in the benzene nucleus are opposite, or in the respective positions 1 and 4; 2 and 5; or 3 and 6, as paraxylene…
TROPIDINE n.
loid, C8H13N, obtained by the chemical dehydration of tropine, as an oily liquid having a coninelike odor.
VALERIDINE n.
C10H19N, produced by heating valeric aldehyde with ammonia. It is probably related to the conine alkaloids.