brucine 的定义
Chemistry.
- a white, crystalline, bitter, slightly water-soluble, very poisonous alkaloid, C23H26N2O4, obtained from the nux vomica tree Strychnos nux-vomica, and from other species of the same genus, resembling but not as powerful as strychnine in its pharmacological action: used chiefly in the denaturation of alcohol.
更多brucine例句
- Gallic acid occurs but seldom in nature; and always united to brucine, veratrine, or lime.
- It is also obtained as a decomposition product of brucine or strychnine, when these alkaloids are distilled with zinc dust.
- Strychnine and brucine exist in combination with igasuric acid discovered by Ludwig in 1873.
- The behaviour of brucine in the subliming cell is described at p. 260.
- It might, therefore, be used to separate strychnine from brucine.