Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
quinamine .
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Examples
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_ -- The alcoholic mother lye from chinamine is evaporated down and protractedly exhausted with boiling ligroine, whereby conchinamine and a small quantity of certain amorphous bases are dissolved out.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 Various
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_ -- The salts of conchinamine, like the base itself, have much in common with chinamine, but are, as a rule, more easily crystallizable.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 Various
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Some years ago, O. Hesse, when preparing chinamine from the renewed bark of _Cinchona succirubra_, found in the mother liquid a new alkaloid, which he then briefly designated as conchinamine.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 Various
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