Definition of Hexone

1. n. A liquid hydrocarbon, C6H8, of the valylene series, obtained from distillation products of certain fats and gums.

Definition of Hexone

1. Noun. (organic compound) A liquid hydrocarbon, C6H8, of the valylene series, obtained from distillation products of certain fats and gums. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hexone

1. a hydrocarbon solvent [n -S]

Medical Definition of Hexone

1. A liquid hydrocarbon, C6H8, of the valylene series, obtained from distillation products of certain fats and gums. Origin: Hex- + -one. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hexone

hexodes
hexodialdose
hexodialdoses
hexofuranose
hexofuranoses
hexogen
hexoic
hexokinase
hexokinase method
hexokinases
hexologies
hexology
hexomino
hexominoes
hexon
hexone (current term)
hexones
hexonic acid
hexoprenaline
hexopyranose
hexopyranoses
hexopyranoside
hexopyranoside:cytochrome c oxidoreductase
hexopyranosides
hexosamine
hexosaminidase
hexosaminidases
hexosan
hexosans
hexose

Literary usage of Hexone

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

1. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1913)
"B. The Separation of Diamino-acids (hexone Bases). The methods for the separation of these hydrolysis products are due chiefly to the investigations of ..."

2. Commercial Organic Analysis by Alfred Henry Allen, Wm. A. Davis (1913)
"B. The Separation of Diamino-acids (hexone Bases). The methods for the separation of these hydrolysis products are due chiefly to the investigations of ..."

3. Transactions of the Pathological Society of London by Pathological Society of London (1905)
"The introduction of a second amino group (NH2) into fatt}" acids confers on them basic properties; hence arginine and lysine are often spoken of as hexone ..."

4. Organic Chemistry: Including Certain Portions of Physical Chemistry for by Howard Davis Haskins, John James Rickard Macleod (1907)
"Lysin and arginin are called hexone bases (hexone refers to their ... It is now believed that these hexone bases are present in combination in all proteid ..."

5. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1906)
"The three hexone bases are therefore, along with ammonia, the only dissociation-products of albumins, the amounts of which we can express in definite ..."

6. A Textbook of Human Physiology: Including a Section on Physiologic Apparatus. by Albert Philson Brubaker (1922)
"Since a typical protein always yields on hydrolysis the hexone bases, in addition to a variable number of mono-amino-acids, it is believed that the usual ..."

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