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Definition of Meconin
1. n. A substance regarded as an anhydride of meconinic acid, existing in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance. Also erroneously called meconina, meconia, etc., as though it were an alkaloid.
Definition of Meconin
1. Noun. (chemistry) A substance regarded as an anhydride of meconinic acid, found in opium. ¹
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Definition of Meconin
1. a white fusible neutral substance [n -S]
Medical Definition of Meconin
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Meconin
Literary usage of Meconin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"meconin dissolves without alteration in dilute sulphuric acid, ... With strong
sulphuric acid, meconin forms a colourless solution which becomes purple when ..."
2. Poisons: their effects and detection by Alexander Wynter Blyth (1895)
"Its solution in concentrated sulphuric acid becomes, on wanning, purple, and
gives, on the addition of water, a brown precipitate. meconin ..."
3. Principles of Organic and Physiological Chemistry by Carl Löwig (1853)
"Dissolves in sulphuric acid with blood-red color; is not changed by concentrated
nitric acid. _ meconin: C^H^Oj, is found in opium. ..."
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