Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An artificial alkaloid, C9H7N, which is obtained by distilling quinine or cinchonine with potash, or synthetically from aniline and nitrobenzene by treatment with sulphuric acid and glycerin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) See
quinoline .
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- noun Dated form of
quinoline .
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Examples
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_ -- The author gave a healthy man during several days various doses of chinoline tartrate, which in no way affected the individual operated on, nor was any trace of chinoline found in his urine.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 Various
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The author, therefore, considers that the base is oxidized by the blood to carbopyridinic acid, which is a still more powerful antiseptic than chinoline itself.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 Various
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The valuable properties of which chinoline has been found to be possessed have led to its admission as a therapeutic agent, and the discoverer of these properties, Jul. Donath, of Baja, in Hungary, in a paper sent to the _Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft_,
Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 Various
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The author found that 100 grammes of a Bucholze's solution for the propagation of bacteria, charged with 0.20 g. of chinoline hydrochlorate, had remained perfectly clear and free from bacteria after standing forty-six days exposed to the air, while a similar solution, placed under the same conditions, without chinoline, had turned muddy and contained bacteria after only twelve days 'standing.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 Various
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