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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A purplish pigment obtained by treating hematin with concentrated sulphuric acid saturated with hydrobromicacid, the iron of the hematin being split off as the result.
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- noun biochemistry The
porphyrin portion ofheme (minus theiron atom)
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