Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An organic base, C16H23NO5, existing as a sulphocyanate in white mustardseed. The free base is quite unstable, and has not been obtained.
Wiktionary
- n. organic chemistry An alkaloidal amine found in black mustard seeds, considered a choline ester of sinapic acid.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) An alkaloid occuring in the seeds of mustard. It is extracted, in combination with sulphocyanic acid, as a white crystalline substance, having a hot, bitter taste. When sinapine is isolated it is unstable and undergoes decomposition.
Etymologies
- Latin sinapi, sinapis, mustard, Ancient Greek: compare French sinapine. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“When boiled with baryta water, sinapine decomposes into sinapic acid, C_ {11} H_ {12} O_ {5}, and choline,”
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