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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A brownish-red crystalline powder, C14H15N3Cl2, used as an antiseptic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A yellow, crystalline, organic base, C13H12N2O, obtained artificially.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
flavin .
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In addition, by combining a flavine mononucleotide with a protein moiety of Warburg's yellow enzyme, Kuhn and Rudy produced the very first partial synthesis of a fully functional enzyme.
Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms 2010
caxton commented on the word flavine
flavine n, any of a series of yellow acridine dyes often used medicinally for their antiseptic properties.
January 8, 2008