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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The general name of a class of organic bodies containing the group C.NH.NH2. The amidins are mono-acid bases which are quite unstable in the free state.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) Start modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. It is soluble in cold water.
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- noun chemistry
Starch modified byheat so as to become atransparent mass , likehorn . It issoluble in cold water.
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_amidin_, from the French word for starch, _amidon_.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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