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- noun chemistry a
xanthophyll pigment , 5,8-monoepoxylutein, found in the petals ofmarigolds and other plants
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He and his colleagues isolated and purified a large number of them, including carotene, lycopene, flavoxanthin and violaxanthin.
Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms 2010
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