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Definition of Piperin
1. Noun. Derived from pepper (especially black pepper); source of the hotness of black and white pepper.
Substance meronyms: Black Pepper, Common Pepper, Madagascar Pepper, Pepper, Piper Nigrum, White Pepper
Generic synonyms: Chemical Irritant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piperin
Literary usage of Piperin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Food inspection and analysis by Albert Ernest Leach (1907)
"Determination of piperin.f—Fifty grams of the sample are thoroughly exhausted with
... It is then dissolved in alcohol, from which crystals of crude piperin ..."
2. Elements of Chemistry: For the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools by Victor Regnault (1853)
"piperin exists in pepper, and is generally extracted from white pepper, by treating
it with alcohol. The alcoholic solution is evaporated, ..."
3. Elements of Chemistry by Victor Regnault, James Curtis Booth, William L. Faber (1865)
"These substances being very numerous, we shall only mention the most important
and those which are best known. piperin C^H^NO,. § 1492. ..."
4. Foods: Their Composition and Analysis: A Manual for the Use of Analytical by Alexander Wynter Blyth (1896)
"When pure, piperin crystallises in colourless, brilliant, four-sided prisms ; it is
... Heating with alcoholic potash decomposes piperin into piperidine and ..."
5. Foods: Their Composition and Analysis by Alexander Wynter Blyth, Meredith Wynter Blyth (1903)
"The quantity of piperin in peppers varies from 4 to 8 per cent. ... Heating with
alcoholic potash decomposes piperin into piperidine and ..."
6. The Journal of the Royal Institution of Great Britain by Royal Institution of Great Britain (1831)
"I know of no better indication of the entire extraction of the piperin, than the
want of taste in the marc or insoluble residue ; although acridity (as has ..."
7. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1900)
"Formerly this agent was frequently substituted for or used in conjunction with
the cinchona alkaloids in the treatment of malarial fevers. piperin is now ..."
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