Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
rheic acid (which see, underrheic ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) Chrysophanic acid.
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- noun organic chemistry An
anthraquinone found inrhubarb .
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- noun a major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world; flows into the North Sea
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Five compounds - chrysophanol, emodin, physcion, aloe-emodin and rhein - were isolated and identified spectroscopically (UV, IR and MS) and by comparison of the melting points with those reported for chrysophanol, emodin, physcion, aloe-emodin and rhein.
Chapter 7 1991
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Five compounds were identified and assayed, namely aloe-emodin, chrysophanol, emodin, physcion and rhein.
Chapter 7 1991
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Figure 3A: Influence of acetate and malenate in rhein production in static cultures of Cassia senna
Chapter 7 1991
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The incorporation varied, chrysophanol being highest and with rhein much lower.
Chapter 7 1991
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Anthraquinones were consistently eluted in the sequence, aloe-emodin, rhein, emodin, chrysophanol and physcion.
Chapter 7 1991
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Look at Hinter-rhein, far down below there, like a toy village, and that vast desolate valley, with the grey river rushing through it, and the green glacier at the end, and these awful snow-covered peaks all round -- _look_, man!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 31, 1891 Various 1876
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"[Greek: dia to rhein ex autês ton opon]" -- "because the sap, opium, flows from it."
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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