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Definition of Extractive

1. a. Capable of being extracted.

2. n. Anything extracted; an extract.

Definition of Extractive

1. Adjective. That serves to extract something ¹

2. Adjective. Able to be extracted ¹

3. Noun. Something that may be extracted ¹

4. Noun. The substance left behind after something has been extracted ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Extractive

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Extractive

1. 1. Capable of being extracted. "Thirty grains of extractive matter." 2. Tending or serving to extract or draw out. "Certain branches of industry are conveniently designated extractive: e.g, agriculture, pastoral and mining pursuits, cutting of lumber, etc." (Cairnes) Origin: Cf. F. Extractif. 1. Anything extracted; an extract. "Extractives, of which the most constant are urea, kreatin, and grape sugar." (H. N. Martin) 2. A chemical principle once supposed to exist in all extracts. Any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatine extractives from muscle tissue. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Extractive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1868)
"On the Colouring and extractive Matters of Urine."—Part II. ... A specimen of the extractive matter insoluble in alcohol was prepared in the following ..."

2. A System of Chemistry by Thomas Thomson (1817)
"I. OF extractive. The word extract was at first applied to all those sub- History. stances which were extracted from plants by means of water, ..."

3. A System of Chemistry by Thomas Thomson (1810)
"The extractive principle possesses the following properties: fc *• Soluble ... The taste of extractive is always strong ; but it is very different according ..."

4. Elements of Chemistry ...: Designed for the Use of Schools and Academies by John Lee Comstock (1831)
"extractive Matter. Most vegetables, when infused for a time in hot water, impart to it a brown colour. When such solutions are evaporated, there remains a ..."

5. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1908)
"For ordinary drugs that have no alkaloidal constituency, aside from the microscopical examination, an estimation of the extractive from the drug is quite ..."

6. Physiological Chemistry by Karl Gotthelf Lehmann (1855)
"Chemists still reckon the urine-pigments amongst what they term extractive matters, and may be said by this arrangement to make a candid avowal of their ..."

7. Animal Chemistry with Reference to the Physiology and Pathology of Man by Johann Franz Simon (1845)
"extractive Matters. After the removal of the protein-compounds from the animal fluids, there still remain certain salts, (lactates, chlorides, phosphates, ..."

8. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1856)
"The outer surface or epidermis seldom furnishes either lannin or extractive matter. Young trees abound most in the white cortical layers, and are hence more ..."

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