porphyrine

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n. A white amorphous alkaloid, C₂₁H₂₅N₃O₂, found in the bark of Pala constricta. Its salts have a blue fluorescence. It melts at 97° C.

“The water will be broad and gold, and darkened here and there into shadows of porphyrine amber.”

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