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Erythrite (medicine)


erythrite


1. <chemistry> A colourless crystalline substance, C4H6.(OH)4, of a sweet, cooling taste, extracted from certain lichens, and obtained by the decomposition of erythrin; called also erythrol, erythroglucin, erythromannite, pseudorcin, cobalt bloom, and under the name phycite obtained from the alga Protococcus vulgaris. It is a tetrabasic alcohol, corresponding to glycol and glycerin. Now usu. Called erythritol, HO.CH2.CHOH.CHOH.CH2.OH Has coronary vasodilator activity.

2. <chemical> A rose-red mineral, crystallized and earthy, a hydrous arseniate of cobalt, known also as cobalt bloom; called also erythrin or erythrine.

Origin: Gr. Red.

Source: Websters Dictionary


weld(1) (iou)



weld noun1. LME.
[= Middle Low German waude (for walde), Middle Dutch woude (Dutch wouw), perh. rel. to WEALD, WOLD. Perh. already in Old English.]
A Eurasian mignonette, Reseda luteola, of bare or disturbed, freq. chalky places, formerly grown as the source of a yellow dye (also called dyer's rocket). Also, the dye obtained from this plant.