sinapinen.
/ˈsɪnəpɪn/ Chemistry.
‘An organic base, existing as a sulphocyanate in white mustard-seed’ (Watts).
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1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 903 There exists in it [mustard] a peculiar crystallizable body, to which they gave the name of sulphosinapisin; but which has been shortened by Berzelius into sinapin.
1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. vii. §1. 497 (note) An aqueous solution of sinapine has an intense yellow colour.
1878 C. T. Kingzett Animal Chem. 277 Von Babo and Huschbrunn discovered a base named sinkaline as a decomposition product of sinapine.
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