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Definition of Mannite
1. n. A white crystalline substance of a sweet taste obtained from a so-called manna, the dried sap of the flowering ash (Fraxinus ornus); -- called also mannitol, and hydroxy hexane. Cf. Dulcite.
Definition of Mannite
1. Noun. (dated organic compound) mannitol ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mannite
1. mannitol [n -S] : MANNITIC [adj] - See also: mannitol
Medical Definition of Mannite
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mannite
Literary usage of Mannite
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 (1871)
"It is highly deliquescent, passing gradually into mannite when it is exposed to
a moist atmosphere. Exposed in an open vessel to the air in the usual state, ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"AUGUST 24, 1917] SCIENCE that mannite could be isolated from practically every
sample of normal corn silage. The alcoholic extract from dried silage yielded ..."
3. Fownes Manual of Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical: A New American from by George Fownes (1885)
"mannite, heated with organic acids, forms compound ethers, after the manner of
alcohols in general, the elements of the mannite and the acid uniting ..."
4. Elements of Chemistry by Victor Regnault, James Curtis Booth, William L. Faber (1865)
"mannite, which is a substance widely scattered through the vegetable organization,
exists in the proportion of 60 per cent, in manna, the dried juice which ..."
5. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1857)
"The author has observed this production of mannite on many of these Algae, ...
It has been supposed that the production of mannite by these plants was due ..."
6. A Manual of Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1869)
"Ordinary glucose (grape-sugar) is converted into mannite by the action of ...
572), and, on the other hand, mannite when slowly oxidized in contact with ..."
7. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1867)
"In a few cases as much as ^5 of the mannite employed was converted into sugar.
This sugar resembles glucose, but has not yet been obtained in a crystalline ..."
8. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1862)
"1-') under the influence of pla- tinum-black, see mannite. D. From Oxalate of Ethyl.
— When this compound is brought in contact with sodium-amalgam at low ..."
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