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Definition of Hexamine
1. Noun. (chemistry) an organic polyamine, (CH2)6N4, having a cagelike structure similar to adamantane, prepared from formaldehyde and ammonia; it has many industrial, commercial and scientific uses ¹
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Definition of Hexamine
1. a chemical compound [n -S]
Medical Definition of Hexamine
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hexamine
Literary usage of Hexamine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chemistry of Synthetic Drugs by Percy May (1918)
"A large number of other derivatives and additive products of hexamine have been
introduced into medicine as urinary antiseptics. ..."
2. Therapeutic Gazette (1916)
"Hexamine should be given in neutral or slightly alkaline mixtures, and if acid
sodium phosphate is necessary to render the urine acid, it should not be ..."
3. Gynæcology for Students & Practitioners by Thomas Watts Eden (1920)
"To destroy the organisms present there is no drug so efficient as hexamine.
Its efficiency depends upon the liberation of formaldehyde in the urine ..."
4. A Text-book of Inorganic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik Holleman (1902)
"Finally in the hexamine salts all ionization has disappeared ; the solution of
hexamine- cobalt nitrite, Co(NHi)>(NOs),, for example, was found to be ..."
5. A Treatise on Pharmacy for Students and Pharmacists by Charles Caspari, Evander Francis Kelly (1920)
"... in the British Pharmacopoeia under the title Hexamine, and care is necessary
to avoid confusion in this country with a line of pharmaceuticals, powder, ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The caustic soda is a protection against prussic acid and hexamine takes out the
phosgene. Signal stations, command posts, dressing stations and dugouts for ..."
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