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单词 caffeine
释义

caffeinen.

Brit. /ˈkafiːn/, U.S. /kæˈfin/, /ˈkæˌfin/
Etymology: < French caféine, < café coffee + -ine suffix5; see caffeinated adj.
Chemistry.
A vegetable alkaloid crystallizing in white silky needles, found in the leaves and seeds of the coffee and tea plants, the leaves of guarana, maté, etc.
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the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > alkaloids > [noun] > caffeine
caffeine1830
theine1838
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 206 Coffee is..supposed to owe its characters to a peculiar chemical principle called Caffein.
1863 H. Watts Dict. Chem. I. 707 Caffeine was discovered in coffee by Runge in the year 1820. Oudry, in 1827, found in tea a crystalline substance which he called theine, supposing it to be a distinct compound; but Jobat showed that it was identical with caffeine.
1869 Daily News 22 July A piece of kaffeine, of the size of a breakfast plate, produced from 120 pounds of coffee.

Derivatives

ˈcaffeinism n. = caffeism n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders caused by poisons > [noun] > by drugs
alcoholism1848
quinism1851
narcotization1853
cinchonism1857
bromism1867
atropinism1876
atropinization1880
bromization1881
caffeism1886
caffeinism1889
nicotinism1892
nicotism1899
1889 in Cent. Dict.

Draft additions October 2009

caffeine-free adj. (of a drink) containing no caffeine; decaffeinated.
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1903 Proc. Sect. Sci. Koninkl. Akad. van Wetensch. Amsterdam 6 207 On testing tea leaves which had turned yellow and would fall at the merest touch, it appeared that they were quite caffeine-free.
1908 Amer. Food Jrnl. 15 Nov. 14/2 The patented process of manufacturing the caffeine-free coffee.
1993 Spy (N.Y.) Feb. 42/2 Somebody will get him a caffeine-free Diet Coke.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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