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Quinine vs Quinicine - What's the difference?

quinine | quinicine |

As nouns the difference between quinine and quinicine

is that quinine is (pharmaceutical drug) a bitter colourless powder, an alkaloid derived from cinchona bark, used to treat malaria and as an ingredient of tonic water while quinicine is (organic compound|archaic) an uncrystallizable alkaloid obtained by the action of heat from quinine, with which it is isomeric.

quinine

English

(wikipedia quinine)

Noun

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  • (pharmaceutical drug) A bitter colourless powder, an alkaloid derived from cinchona bark, used to treat malaria and as an ingredient of tonic water.
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    • See also

    * Jesuit's bark ----

    quinicine

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (organic compound, archaic) An uncrystallizable alkaloid obtained by the action of heat from quinine, with which it is isomeric.

    • Synonyms

    * quinotoxine (more recent)