Brucine is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 150 anagrams from letters in brucine (bceinru).
1815-25; named after J. Bruce (1730-94), Scottish explorer; see -ine2
The strychnine and brucine are in about equal proportions, Dragendorff finding 1·187 per cent.
In a physiological sense, brucine may be considered a diluted strychnine.
Strychnine is found in them in the proportion of ½–1½ and brucine ½%–1.4%.
It gives a red colour with brucine, turns the green sulphate of iron black, and with hydrochloric acid dissolves gold.
A sample examined by Dragendorff yielded—strychnine, 0·8 per cent.; brucine, 3·2 per cent.
It might, therefore, be used to separate strychnine from brucine.
Monte Christo discourses on the poisonous properties of brucine, a drug rarely used in England, but largely used in France.
brucine melts at 151° into a pale yellow liquid, at higher temperatures becoming deep-brown.
The behaviour of brucine in the subliming cell is described at p. 260.
brucine is a tertiary diamine, that is, formed by substitution in a double ammonia molecule.