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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A colorless, beautifully crystalline compound, C8H9N4O2.OC2H5, slightly soluble in water and alcohol, made by boiling 3 parts monobrom caffein with 2 parts potassium hydrate in 10 parts alcohol. It is sedative in nervous headache.
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