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
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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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).