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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The reddish-brown crystalline chloride of heme, C34H32N4O4FeCl, produced when hemoglobin reacts with glacial acetic acid and sodium chloride in a laboratory test for the presence of blood.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crystalline substance which may be obtained from hematin on treating it with salt and glacial acetic acid. Its formula is C34H33N4O4FeCl. The crystals are quite characteristic in appearance, and their formation has for many years represented one of the most important tests for blood-coloring matter. See
Teichmann's crystals .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol. Chem.) A substance, in the form of reddish brown, microscopic, prismatic crystals, formed from dried blood by the action of strong acetic acid and common salt; -- called also
Teichmann's crystals. Chemically, it is a hydrochloride of hematin.
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- noun a
reddish brown substance produced in alaboratory test for the presence ofblood by reaction withglacial acetic acid andsodium chloride
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a reddish-brown chloride of heme; produced from hemoglobin in laboratory tests for the presence of blood
- verb surround so as to force to give up
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Examples
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Willstätter showed a structural relatedness between chlorophyll and hemin, and he demonstrated that chlorophyll contains magnesium as an integral component.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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Munich had already done significant work on the structure of hemin, the organic pigment in hemoglobin, when he synthesized it from simpler organic molecules in 1928.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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En pneumati hagio nooumenai kai anoigomenai hai graphai deiknuousin hemin ton Christon, eikotos zuroros to pneuma to hagion.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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* Panta de lego ta ouk eph 'hemin, ta gar eph' hemin, ou hemin pronoias, alla tou hemeterou autexousiou.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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* En pneumati hagio nooumenai kai anoigomenai hai graphai deiknuousin hemin ton Christon, eikotos zuroros to pneuma to hagion: [5370] 1
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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[45] Panta de lego ta ouk eph 'hemin, ta gar eph' hemin, ou hemin pronoias, alla tou hemeterou autexousiou.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Ei gar kata panta legetai hemin homoousios, agnooumen de kai hemeis, delon hoti kai autos egnoei.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Ei gar kata panta legetai hemin homoousios, agnooumen de kai hemeis, delon hoti kai autos egnoei.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Ex. 14: 5 Ti touto epoiesamen tou exaposteilai tous huious Israel tou me douleuein hemin (= hoste me douleuein);
A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905
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Cp. 1 Clem. 21: 9 hou he pnoe autou en hemin estin.
A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905
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