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noun Chemistry.
a crystalline compound, C3H7NO2, with a sweet taste, soluble in water, slightly soluble in alcohol: used in the manufacture of toothpaste, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals.
Origin:
< German Sarkosin (1847), apparently irregular derivative from Greek sárx, stem sark- flesh, and German -in -ine2
< German Sarkosin (1847), apparently irregular derivative from Greek sárx, stem sark- flesh, and German -in -ine2
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Sarcosine
is always a great word to know.
So is asymmetric. Does it mean:
| of, pertaining to, or tending to develop into icelike crystals: glacial phosphoric acid |
| having an unsymmetrical arrangement of atoms in a molecule, or noting a carbon atom bonded to four different atoms or groups |
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sarcosine sar·co·sine (sär'kə-sēn', -sĭn)
n.
An amino acid made synthetically or formed naturally during the decomposition of creatine.
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