Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A strongly alkaline crystalline compound, NHC(NH2)2, formed by the oxidation of guanine and found in the urine as a normal product of protein metabolism. It is commonly used in the organic synthesis of plastics, resins, and explosives.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Physiol. Chem.) A strongly alkaline base, NH2.CNH.NH2, formed by the oxidation of guanin, and also obtained combined with methyl in the decomposition of creatin. Boiled with dilute sulphuric acid, it yields urea and ammonia.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun organic chemistry A strong base HN=C(NH2)2 obtained by the oxidation of guanine

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[guan(ine) + –id(e) + –ine.]

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Examples

  • And so that's the project that I pursued for that year, and it's continuing now as well, and found that a specific purine derivative called guanidine had inhibited the cell growth by approximately 60 percent.

    Eva Vertes looks to the future of medicine 2005

  • And so that's the project that I pursued for that year, and it's continuing now as well, and found that a specific purine derivative called guanidine had inhibited the cell growth by approximately 60 percent.

    Eva Vertes looks to the future of medicine 2005

  • And so that's the project that I pursued for that year, and it's continuing now as well, and found that a specific purine derivative called guanidine had inhibited the cell growth by approximately 60 percent.

    Eva Vertes looks to the future of medicine 2005

  • Preferred modifiers include NaOH, urea sodium dodecyl sulfate, sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate, and guanidine hydrochloride.

    Mairi Beautyman: Unexpected Green Hazard: When Your Cat Binges on the Edible Packaging 2009

  • Sensitivity to guanidine may disappear upon mutation.

    André Lwoff - Nobel Lecture 1972

  • It is difficult to conceive that the presence, at some particular locus, of a nucleotide already abundantly represented along a long chain could modify the properties of the chain so that, for example, a difference of temperature of one-tenth of one degree or the presence of 0.0002 M guanidine would notably affect the structure and function of the molecule.

    André Lwoff - Nobel Lecture 1972

  • In the presence of guanidine, viral RNA is not synthesized, and it has been believed that guanidine acts in some manner on the viral RNA-replicase.

    André Lwoff - Nobel Lecture 1972

  • Such methylation would be effected by a virus-determined enzyme which is sentitive to guanidine and to cellular metabolites possessing a guanyl group.

    André Lwoff - Nobel Lecture 1972

  • At concentrations which are inhibiting for the virus, however, guanidine does not observably influence metabolism and cellular growth.

    André Lwoff - Nobel Lecture 1972

  • However, we became aware that methionine and choline neutralize the inhibiting effects of guanidine.

    André Lwoff - Nobel Lecture 1972

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