glucina Chem.
(gl(j)uːˈsaɪna)
Formerly also glucine, glycine.
[Latinized form of F. glucine, (Vauquelin, 1798), f. Gr. γλυκ-ύς sweet (some of the salts of glucina having a sweet taste): see note s.v. glucic. For the ending -a, cf. magnesia, soda, etc.]
The oxide of glucinum or beryllium, otherwise called beryllia.
| 1800 tr. Lagrange's Chem. I. 157 Glucine. 1807 T. Thomson Chem. II. 72 The discovery of a new earth, to which Vauquelin and his associates gave the name of glucina. 1819 Rees Cycl., Glycine, Glucine. 1831 T. P. Jones Convers. Chem. xvii. 172 Glucina or glucine. 1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 215 The Crystoberyl is an aluminate of glucina. |