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Quinine vs Quinolinone - What's the difference?

quinine | quinolinone |

As nouns the difference between quinine and quinolinone

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 quinolinone is (organic chemistry) any cyclic ketone derived from quinoline.

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 ----

    quinolinone

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (organic chemistry) Any cyclic ketone derived from quinoline