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Biuret
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, sugarlike, substance, obtained.
Catalysis
noun · 78% connection
A process by which reaction occurs in the presence of certain agents which were formerly believed to exert an influence by mere contac…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, sugarlike, substance, obtained.
Cerebrose
noun · 78% connection
A sugarlike body obtained by the decomposition of the nitrogenous non-phosphorized principles of the brain.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, sugarlike, substance, obtained.
Cotarnine
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline substance, C12H13NO3, obtained as a product of the decomposition of narcotine. It has weak basic properties, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, sugarlike, substance, obtained.
Cyanuric acid
unknown · 78% connection
an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, sugarlike, substance, obtained.
Dulcite
noun · 78% connection
A white, sugarlike substance, C6H8.(OH)2, occurring naturally in a manna from Madagascar, and in certain plants, and produced artifici…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, sugarlike, substance, obtained.
Emulsin
noun · 78% connection
An unorganized ferment (contained in this extract and in other vegetable juices), which effects the decomposition of certain glucoside…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, sugarlike, substance, obtained.
Erythrite
noun · 78% connection
A colorless crystalline substance, C4H6.(OH)4, of a sweet, cooling taste, extracted from certain lichens, and obtained by the decompos…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, sugarlike, substance, obtained.
Galactose
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, sugarlike, substance, obtained.
Gentianose
noun · 78% connection
A crystallizable, sugarlike substance, with a slightly sweetish taste, obtained from the gentian.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, sugarlike, substance, obtained.
Hesperetin
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline substance having a sweetish taste, obtained by the decomposition of hesperidin, and regarded as a complex derivat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, sugarlike, substance, obtained.
Hexacid
adjective · 78% connection
Having six atoms or radicals capable of being replaced by acids; hexatomic; hexavalent; -- said of bases; as, mannite is a hexacid bas…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, sugarlike, substance, obtained.
Indigo
noun · 78% connection
A blue dyestuff obtained from several plants belonging to very different genera and orders; as, the woad, Isatis tinctoria, Indigofera…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, sugarlike, substance, obtained.
Inulin
noun · 78% connection
A substance of very wide occurrence. It is found dissolved in the sap of the roots and rhizomes of many composite and other plants, as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, sugarlike, substance, obtained.
Lethal
noun · 78% connection
One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid. It is so called because it o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, sugarlike, substance, obtained.
Leucin
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance formed in the decomposition of albuminous matter by pancreatic digestion, by the action of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, sugarlike, substance, obtained.
Melamine
noun · 78% connection
A strong nitrogenous base, C3H6N6, produced from several cyanogen compounds, and obtained as a white crystalline substance, -- formerl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, sugarlike, substance, obtained.
Melanuric
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid obtained by decomposition of melam, or of urea, as a white crystalline powde…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: white, crystalline, sugarlike, substance, obtained.