Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An aromatic organic base, C9H7N, having a pungent tarlike odor, synthesized or obtained from coal tar, and used as a food preservative and in making antiseptics, drugs, and dyes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
chinoline .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A nitrogenous base, C9H7N obtained as a pungent colorless liquid by the distillation of alkaloids, bones, coal tar, etc. It the nucleus of many organic bodies, especially of certain alkaloids and related substances; hence, by extension, any one of the series of alkaloidal bases of which quinoline proper is the type.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry Any of a
class ofaromatic heterocyclic compounds containing abenzene ring fused with apyridine ring; especially thesimplest such compound, C9H7N.
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Examples
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"quinoline" were produced, at about half the price of quinine.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Various
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The additives assessed in the study included sodium benzoate, sunset yellow, carmoisine, ponceau 4R, tartrazine, quinoline yellow and allura red.
duh pookie 2009
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The additives assessed in the study included sodium benzoate, sunset yellow, carmoisine, ponceau 4R, tartrazine, quinoline yellow and allura red.
duh pookie 2009
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Those colors are Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), Yellow No. 10 (quinoline yellow, not approved in the U.S.)
9 Food Additives Possibly Linked To ADHD (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Like quinine, chloroquine is a rather small molecule not a big, “macro” molecule and has a core structure called a “quinoline.”
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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Like quinine, chloroquine is a rather small molecule not a big, “macro” molecule and has a core structure called a “quinoline.”
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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Like quinine, chloroquine is a rather small molecule not a big, “macro” molecule and has a core structure called a “quinoline.”
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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Like quinine, chloroquine is a rather small molecule not a big, “macro” molecule and has a core structure called a “quinoline.”
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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The leather note isobutyl quinoline sp? is practically the same.
Utterly Random Friday: An Ode to Boden Marina Geigert 2007
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This is not exactly the case with the higher groups of alkaloids -- the derivatives of pyridine and quinoline.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various
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