Definitions for saccharin

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saccharin sac·cha·rin

Spelling: [sak-er-in]

IPA: /ˈsæk ər ɪn/

Saccharin is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 337 anagrams from letters in saccharin (aacchinrs).

Definitions for saccharin

noun

1. a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, C 7 H 5 NO 3 S, produced synthetically, which in dilute solution is 500 times as sweet as sugar: its soluble sodium salt is used as a noncaloric sugar substitute in the manufacture of syrups, foods, and beverages.

Origin of saccharin

First recorded in 1875-80; sacchar- + -in²

Examples for saccharin

Mix the saccharin with the spirit of peppermint and the sulphonmethane.

Mix the saccharin with the tincture of vanilla; then add the heroine hydrochloride.

Mix the saccharin with the tincture of vanilla, add the aristochin and mix by trituration.

Mix the saccharin with the spirit of peppermint, then add the adalin, and triturate.

If saccharin is present, there will be a red-green fluorescence.

Sugar is an example of such foods; saccharin may be substituted when necessary.

And the beauty of saccharin, he confided to the others, is that it stays with you.

Mix the saccharin with the tincture of vanilla, and incorporate the phenolphthalein.

Then water or weak tea, sweetened with saccharin, may be given, but nothing else.

A purple or violet coloration proves the presence of salicylic acid, which in turn indicates the presence of saccharin.