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Alcohol
noun · 78% connection
A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, formed, decomposition.
Asparagine
noun · 78% connection
A white, nitrogenous, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, formed, decomposition.
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: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, formed, decomposition.
Carbinol
noun · 78% connection
Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; -- also, by extension, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is the ty…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, formed, decomposition.
Cerebrin
noun · 78% connection
A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, formed, decomposition.
Cholesterin
noun · 78% connection
A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, formed, decomposition.
Chondrin
noun · 78% connection
A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of bo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, formed, decomposition.
Creatin
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance found abundantly in muscle tissue.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, formed, decomposition.
Creatine
noun · 78% connection
an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, formed, decomposition.
Creatinin
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous body closely related to creatin but more basic in its properties, formed from the latter by the acti…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, formed, decomposition.
Ecgonine
noun · 78% connection
A colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, formed, decomposition.
Extractive
noun · 78% connection
Any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hy…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, formed, decomposition.
Formaldehyde
noun · 78% connection
A colorless, volatile liquid, H2CO, resembling acetic or ethyl aldehyde, and chemically intermediate between methyl alcohol and formic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, formed, decomposition.
Glycocoll
noun · 78% connection
A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, with a sweet taste, formed from hippuric acid by boiling with hydrochloric acid, and present in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, formed, decomposition.
Guanidine
noun · 78% connection
A strongly alkaline base, CN3H5, formed by the oxidation of guanin, and also obtained combined with methyl in the decomposition of cre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, formed, decomposition.
Holocrystalline
adjective · 78% connection
Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, formed, decomposition.
Hypoxanthin
noun · 78% connection
A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, closely related to xanthin and uric acid, widely distributed through the animal body, but especi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, formed, decomposition.
Indifferent
adjective · 78% connection
having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive; "inert matter"; "an indifferent chemical in a reaction"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: crystalline, nitrogenous, substance, formed, decomposition.