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sinapine
[ sin-uh-pahyn, -pin ]
noun
, Chemistry.
- an alkaloid extracted from various oilseeds, especially the seeds of brown mustard, rapeseed, and other cruciferous plants.
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Sinapine, the alkaloid which exists as sulphocyanate in white mustard seed, yields, under the same reaction as that applied to atropine and piperine, quite different results.
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When boiled with baryta water, sinapine decomposes into sinapic acid, C11H12O5, and choline, C5H15NO2, the latter a well-known constituent of the bile, and produced also in the decomposition of the lecithin of the brain and yolk of egg.
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