Definitions for brucines

brucines bru·cine

Spelling: [broo-seen, -sin]
IPA: /ˈbru sin, -sɪn/

Brucines is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 321 anagrams from letters in brucines (bceinrsu).

Definitions for brucines

noun

  1. a white, crystalline, bitter, slightly water-soluble, very poisonous alkaloid, C 23 H 26 N 2 O 4 , 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.

Origin of brucines

1815-25; named after J. Bruce (1730-94), Scottish explorer; see -ine2

Examples for brucines

It gives a red colour with brucine, turns the green sulphate of iron black, and with hydrochloric acid dissolves gold.

Monte Christo discourses on the poisonous properties of brucine, a drug rarely used in England, but largely used in France.

It might, therefore, be used to separate strychnine from brucine.

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%.

The strychnine and brucine are in about equal proportions, Dragendorff finding 1·187 per cent.

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.

brucine melts at 151° into a pale yellow liquid, at higher temperatures becoming deep-brown.

A sample examined by Dragendorff yielded—strychnine, 0·8 per cent.; brucine, 3·2 per cent.

Word Value for brucines
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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