Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as saccharin.
  • noun A class name applied, in organic chemistry, to compounds containing the group where R is a bivalent aromatic hydrocarbon radical such as phenylene, C6H4. The compounds are also called orthoanhydro-sulphamine-carboxylic acids.

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

  • noun (Chem.) A white or yellowish crystalline substance, C6H4.(SO2.CO).NH, produced artificially by the oxidation of a sulphamic derivative of toluene. It is the sweetest substance known, having over two hundred times the sweetening power of sugar, and is known in commerce under the name of saccharine. It has acid properties and forms salts (which are inaccurately called saccharinates).

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  • noun Alternative form of sulfinide.

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