Medical Definition of Brazilein
1. C6H12O5;a red oxidation product of brazilin. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brazilein
Literary usage of Brazilein
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"brazilein yields a triacetyl derivative ... by Perkin is as follows :— т When
brazilein is dissolved in sulphuric acid, and the solution is diluted with ..."
2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"brazilein trimethyl ether combines with formic acid, yielding a formic acid
derivative which crystallises in garnet-coloured prisms, and is decomposed into ..."
3. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1863)
"Possibly the colourless brazilin was oxidised to brazilein during the pro»«. ...
brazilein is soluble in water, alcohol, and ether, forming red solutions, ..."
4. The Chemistry of Pigments by Ernest John Parry, John Henry Coste (1902)
"When powdered, brazilein is of a reddish-brown colour, and dissolves only slightly
in cold, but more readily in hot water; the solution is of a ..."
5. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1889)
"Boiling with zinc-dust or acid sulphite of sodium reduces brazilein to brazilin.
An aqueous decoction of brazil-wood, or any of the allied woods, ..."
6. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1906)
"Samt Derivatives of brazilein." By PAUL ENGELS and WILLIAM HENRY PERKIN, jun.
... When brazilein is treated with a large excess of methyl sulphate and ..."
7. Pigments of Flowering Plants by Nellie Antoinette Wakeman (1913)
"brazilein occurs along with brazilin in various species of "red wood," ...
brazilein dyes fabrics mordanted with aluminum a blueish red; with chromium, ..."
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