Crossword-Solution: BETAINE
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| Betaine | n. | A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beet-root molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called also lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste. |
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| Alkaloid used in medicine | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also,
the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many
fishes.
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Sentences with BETAINE (2)
Furthermore, betaine CH_{2} / \ (tri-methyl glycocoll, OC N[trb](CH_{3})_{3}) \ / O and perhaps other vegetable amines (see Chapter XII) sometimes replace choline as the basic group in the phosphatides.
The filtered liquid freed from lime by carbonic acid, and evaporated, leaves impure betaine, which may be purified by recrystallisation from alcohol, with help of animal charcoal.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1992).