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xanthin
xanthin is a 7-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A crystalline nitrogenous body closely related to both uric acid and hypoxanthin, present in muscle tissue, and occasionally found in the urine and in some urinary calculi. It is also present in guano. So called from the yellow color of certain of its salts (nitrates). Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 18 · 3 senses
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- 1noun
A crystalline nitrogenous body closely related to both uric acid and hypoxanthin, present in muscle tissue, and occasionally found in the urine and in some urinary calculi. It is also present in guano. So called from the yellow color of certain of its salts (nitrates).
- 2noun
A yellow insoluble coloring matter extracted from yellow flowers; specifically, the coloring matter of madder.
- 3noun
One of the gaseous or volatile decomposition products of the xanthates, and probably identical with carbon disulphide.
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