sarcine

[SARCINA.] Chem.: C5H4N4O. A substance existing in the juice of flesh. It is extracted from the mother liquor from which creatine has been separated, by adding nitrate of silver and decomposing the precipitate with sulphydric acid. It separates from an aqueous solution as a white crystalline powder, which di olves in 300 parts of cold and 78 parts of boiling water. A weak organic base, uniting with acids and metallic oxides to form compounds, several of which are crystalline. The hydro chlorate C2H4NO.HCl forms colorle tabular, and the sulphate needle-shaped crystals. Exhib. Rep. )