LAUD A NINE

n. La4d'an-en. Lat., laud an in a. Fr., I. Ger., Laud an in. A base, C?eHa,NO4 (or CaoHj6NOj). found in opium and occurring as colorle hexagonal prisms soluble with difficulty in ether and in cold alcohol, but easily soluble in hot alcohol and in chloroform and melting at 166 C. [B, 270 (a, 38); "Proc. of the Am. Pharm. A oc.," xxi, xxiii, xxvi, xxviii (o, 39).] [s. 588]