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Artificial vs Quinizarin - What's the difference?

artificial | quinizarin |

As an adjective artificial

is man-made; of artifice.

As a noun quinizarin is

(chemistry|archaic) a yellow crystalline substance produced artificially and isomeric with alizarin.

artificial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Man-made; of artifice.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
  • , page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.}}
  • False, misleading.
  • Unnatural.
  • Derived terms

    * artificial consciousness * artificial intelligence * artificiality * artificially * artificialness * artificial selection * artificial turf

    See also

    * fake ----

    quinizarin

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (chemistry, archaic) A yellow crystalline substance produced artificially and isomeric with alizarin.