sarcosinen.
/ˈsɑːkəsɪn/ Chemistry.
A nitrogenous substance, one of the constituents of creatine; methyl glycocoll.
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1848 Chem. Gaz. 6 4 Sarcosine. This substance is obtained by boiling a saturated solution of kreatine with crystallized hydrate of baryta.
1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem.: Org. III. 323 Lactamide..is isomeric with sarcosine.
1869 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. (new ed.) xxxv. 356 Sarcosine can be artificially prepared by acting upon monochloracetic acid with methylamine.
Derivatives
sarcoˈsinic adj. (see quot. 1877).
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1877 Pharmaceut. Jrnl. & Trans. 28 Apr. 872/2 J. Hertz has extracted from a Mexican species of shell-lac, termed ‘Soma de Sonora’, which exuded from the Mimosa Coccifera, a body which he has designated ‘sarcosinic acid’.
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