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Definition of Brucine

Brucine
Brucine Bru"cine, n. [Cf. F. brucine, fr. James Bruce, a Scottish traveler.] (Chem.) A powerful vegetable alkaloid, found, associated with strychnine, in the seeds of different species of Strychnos, especially in the Nux vomica. It is less powerful than strychnine. Called also brucia and brucina.

Meaning of Brucine from wikipedia

- Brucine is an alkaloid closely related to strychnine, most commonly found in the Strychnos nux-vomica tree. Brucine poisoning is rare, since it is usually...
- plants a 9,10-dimethoxy derivative of strychnine, the alkaloid brucine, is also present. Brucine is not as poisonous as strychnine. Historic records indicate...
- source of the highly poisonous, intensely bitter alkaloids strychnine and brucine derived from the seeds inside the tree's round, green to orange fruit....
- adult can be as little as 30 mg). The water also contained the alkaloid brucine and other substances, suggesting that the source was a rodent poison derived...
- determination of nitrate anions. If formic acid is added to a mixture of brucine (an alkaloid related to strychnine) and pot****ium nitrate (KNO3), its color...
- Ignatius' beans. The beans of the plant contain the alkaloids strychnine and brucine. Ignatia. enotes.com Archived March 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Datta...
- chemical formula C21H21N3O7. It is a nitro derivative of brucine obtained by reaction of brucine with nitric acid. It is used as an indicator in the titrimetric...
- celebratory bottle of wine with Bishop, having coated the latter's gl**** with brucine, a colorless and deadly alkaloid. When Bishop realizes that he has been...
- contain up to 2.5% strychnine and brucine. The primary representative of this group of alkaloids are strychnine and brucine. Other notable representatives...
- Vomitoxin Zeranol Zearalenone Plant toxins Amygdalin Anisatin Antiarin Brucine Chaconine Cicutoxin Coniine Daphnin Delphinine Divicine Djenkolic acid...