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Alkaloid

Alt. of Alkaloidal

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Atropine 76% connected

A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. I…

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Betaine 76% connected

A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beet-root molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted…

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Brucine 76% connected

A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nux vomica. It is…

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Caffeine 76% connected

A white, bitter, crystallizable substance, obtained from coffee. It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves, and with guaranine from gu…

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Cinchonine 76% connected

One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.

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Curare 76% connected

Alt. of Curari

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Ergotine 76% connected

A powerful astringent alkaloid extracted from ergot as a brown, amorphous, bitter substance. It is used to produce contraction of the uterus.

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Hyoscine 76% connected

An alkaloid found with hyoscyamine (with which it is also isomeric) in henbane, and extracted as a white, amorphous, semisolid substance.

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Hyoscyamine 76% connected

An alkaloid found in henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the thorn apple and d…

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Nicotine 76% connected

An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco. It is a colorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor, and an acrid burning taste.…

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Physostigmine 76% connected

An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean (the seed of Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline;…

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Pilocarpine 76% connected

An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vaso…

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Strychnine 76% connected

A very poisonous alkaloid resembling brucine, obtained from various species of plants, especially from species of Loganiaceae, as from the seeds of t…

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Alkaloidal 74% connected

Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, alkali.

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Alkaloidal 74% connected

Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, alkali.

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