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Definition of Conine
1. 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 also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2.
Definition of Conine
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of coniine) ¹
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Definition of Conine
1. coniine [n -S] - See also: coniine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conine
Literary usage of Conine
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 (1870)
"TS OF conine.— conine is a strong base, and neutralises acids completely ; forming
salts in which 1 at. conine is united with 1 at. of a monobasic acid, ..."
2. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1859)
"The salts of conine cannot for the most part be obtained in the ... conine turns
bluish green, and afterwards brownish red, even while it is being saturated ..."
3. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1892)
"Sulphuric acid produces no immediate change with conine, but the mixture ...
On exposing a drop of conine to the vapours of bromine (avoiding excess), ..."
4. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"conine. — conine CtH^N is extracted from the seeds of hemlock (Conium ...
The distillate, which contains ammonia and conine, is neutralized with sulphuric ..."
5. First principles of chemistry for the use of colleges and schools: For the by Benjamin Silliman (1861)
"Of the volatile bases analogous to aniline and chino- line, obtained from plants,
but two have been much studied, nicotine and conine. ..."
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