Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A yellow liquid, C8H15N, made by heating butyric aldehyde with ammonia. It is also made from butylidene chlorid or bromide and alcoholic ammonia. It is as poisonous as conine and has a similar odor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A base resembling and isomeric with conine, and obtained as a colorless liquid from butyric aldehyde and ammonia.
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- noun chemistry A
base resembling andisomeric withconine , obtained frombutyric aldehyde andammonia .
Etymologies
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para- + conine
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Examples
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By heating butyl-aldehyde with alcoholic ammonia is formed _paraconine_, an alkaloid isomeric with the natural conine, but differing in physiological action.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 Various
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The artificial alkaloid paraconine, isomeric with the natural conine, will be referred to later.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 Various
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