Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Mannitol.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A neutral substance (C6H14O6) found in a number of plants, chiefly in the larch and manna-ash (Fraxinus Ornus), and also formed by the mucous fermentation of sugars. It is a white, odorless, crystalline substance, having a sweet taste, readily soluble in water, and optically inactive. Also called
mannitol and mannitose, and regarded as a hexatomic alcohol.
Wiktionary
- n. dated, organic chemistry mannitol
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as mannitol.
- n. (Bot.) A sweet white efflorescence from dried fronds of kelp, especially from those of the Laminaria saccharina, or devil's apron.
Etymologies
- mann(a) + -ite1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Hell, fifty kilos of 90 percent pure heroin, cut thirty times, with either quinine or milk powder or a cheap laxative called mannite, could generate $280 million in cash.”
“[Illustration: No. 1] [Illustration: META-DINITRO-BENZENE No. 2] by treating a substance known as mannite, C_ {6} H_ {8} (OH) _ {6}, an alcohol formed by the lactic acid fermentation of sugar and closely related to the sugars, with nitric and sulphuric acids.”
“mannite," which is abundant likewise on many of our Sea Weeds.”
“The less it smudged, the less it had been cut with dilutants such as mannite, lactose, or baking powder.”
“These remarks are applicable to all ferments alike; for instance, butyric ferment is capable of producing a host of distinct fermentations, in consequence of its ability to derive the carbonaceous part of its food from very different substances, from sugar, or lactic acid, or glycerine, or mannite, and many others.”
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
“What precise chemical constituents occur in the Eyebright beyond tannin, mannite, and glucose, are not yet recorded.”
“Muscarin" is the leading active principle of the Fly Agaric, in conjunction with agaricin, mycose, and mannite.”
“The shoots, whether wild or cultivated, are succulent, and contain wax, albumen, acetate of potash, phosphate of potash, mannite, a green resin, and a fixed principle named "asparagin.”
“This root, and the flowers, have an odour of anise, which is due to their containing some volatile oil identical with mannite.”
“[505] In common with the other Fuci it furnishes mannite, an odorous oil, a bitter principle, mucilage, and ash, this last constituent abounding in the bromine and iodine.”
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