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Definition of Dulcite

1. n. A white, sugarlike substance, C₆H₈.(OH)₂, occurring naturally in a manna from Madagascar, and in certain plants, and produced artificially by the reduction of galactose and lactose or milk sugar.

Definition of Dulcite

1. Noun. (organic compound) A white, sugar-like substance, C₆H₈.(OH)₂, occurring naturally in a manna from Madagascar, and in certain plants, and produced artificially by the reduction of galactose and lactose. ¹

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Definition of Dulcite

1. a saccharine substance derived from plants [n -S]

Medical Definition of Dulcite

1. A white, sugarlike substance, C6H8.(OH)2, occurring naturally in a manna from Madagascar, and in certain plants, and produced artificially by the reduction of galactose and lactose or milk sugar. Origin: Cf. F. Dulcite, fr. L. Dulcis sweet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Dulcite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"is really identical in composition and properties with dulcite, ... dulcite (from Madagascar) crystallises in colourless highly lustrous prisms of the ..."

2. A Manual of Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1873)
"... two atoms of hydrogen less than mannite and dulcite, and may therefore be regarded — so far as composition is concerned — as ihe aldehydes of these ..."

3. Principles of Chemistry, Founded on Modern Theories by Alfred Naquet, William Cortis, Thomas Stevenson (1868)
"From this substance, Laurent extracted dulcite by simply digesting it in boiling water, filtering, and leaving the filtered liquor to cool. ..."

4. Fownes Manual of Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical: A New American from by George Fownes (1885)
"dulcite, heated with hydriodic acid, yields a secondary hexyl alcohol, identical with that obtained from mannite. Heated with organic acids, it forms ethers ..."

5. Botanical Microtechnique: A Hand-book of Methods for the Preparation by A[lbrecht] Zimmermann (1893)
"dulcite has been recognized by Borodin (I) by adding one or a few drops of ... dulcite then crystallizes in the form of large prismatic or irregular ..."

6. The Elements of Stereochemistry by Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch, Alfred Werner (1901)
"The configuration of mucic acid being established the formula for dulcite will be OH HH OH IIII CH2OH—C — C — C — C —CH2OH III I. H OH OH H ..."

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