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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Noting an acid, a colorless compound, , formed, together with opianic acid and meconin, by the oxidation of narcotin and narceine. It crystallizes with water of crystallization in quadratic plates, melts at 182° C., and readily forms an anhydrid.

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