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Quinine vs Quinogen - What's the difference?

quinine | quinogen |

As nouns the difference between quinine and quinogen

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 quinogen is (chemistry|obsolete) a hypothetical radical of quinine and related alkaloids.

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 ----

    quinogen

    English

    Noun

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  • (chemistry, obsolete) A hypothetical radical of quinine and related alkaloids.