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rhein - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun Same as rheic acid (which see, under rheic ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun (Chem.) Chrysophanic acid.
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noun organic chemistry An anthraquinone found in rhubarb .
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noun a major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world; flows into the North Sea
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Five compounds - chrysophanol, emodin, physcion, aloe-emodin and rhein - were isolated and identified spectroscopically (UV, IR and MS) and by comparison of the melting points with those reported for chrysophanol, emodin, physcion, aloe-emodin and rhein.
Chapter 7 1991
Five compounds were identified and assayed, namely aloe-emodin, chrysophanol, emodin, physcion and rhein .
Chapter 7 1991
Figure 3A: Influence of acetate and malenate in rhein production in static cultures of Cassia senna
Chapter 7 1991
The incorporation varied, chrysophanol being highest and with rhein much lower.
Chapter 7 1991
Anthraquinones were consistently eluted in the sequence, aloe-emodin, rhein , emodin, chrysophanol and physcion.
Chapter 7 1991
Look at Hinter-rhein , far down below there, like a toy village, and that vast desolate valley, with the grey river rushing through it, and the green glacier at the end, and these awful snow-covered peaks all round -- _look_, man!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 31, 1891 Various 1876
"[Greek: dia to rhein ex autês ton opon]" -- "because the sap, opium, flows from it."
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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