fucusIne

[Eng., ., fucus; -ine (Chem.).] Chem.: C15H12F2O3. An organic base prepared by boiling fucus amide with aqueous potash for twenty minutes. It forms a yellowish resin which melts into a brown oil; this is digested with nitric acid, sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. fucusol the resin separates out, and the nitrate of fucusine crystallizes out: this is decomposed by a slight exce of ammonia, then the fucusine crystallizes out in small lamine united in stellate groups. oil.] fū-cus-ŏl, s . [Eng., ., fucus ; Lat. ol(eum)= Chem.: Fucus aldehydes, C5H4O2, or C4H3O-CO-H. Obtained by distilling seaweed, Fucus nodosus , ., with dilute sulphuric acid, and washing the dis tillate with water. Fucusol is a colorle oily fluid which boils at 172°, and rapidly turns dark colored on keeping. Fucusol is converted by ammonia into fucus amide.