Look up: saccharin

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   Saccharin
   Saccharin is an ortho sulpho benzimide used as a substitute for sugar.
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   Saccharin
   A sugar substitute without nutritive value made from coal tar.
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   saccharin
   [n] - a crystalline substance 500 times sweeter than sugar
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   Saccharin
   Sweetener that does not provide any energy.
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   saccharin
   a sweetener with no calories and no nutritional value.
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   Saccharin
   Sweetener that does not provide any energy.
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   Saccharin
   Saccharin: An artificial sweetener which diluted in water is 300-500 times sweeter than the sugar sucrose. (Saccharin is o-sulfobenzimide; 2,3-dihydro-3-oxobenzisosulfonazole.) The US government removed saccharin from its list of potential cancer-causing agents in 2000 because tests showing it causes tumors in rats proved not to apply to people.
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   Saccharin
   Sac'cha·rin (săk'kȧ*rĭn) noun [ French, from Latin saccharon sugar.] (Chemistry) A bitter white crystalline substance obtained from the saccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid; -- so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar ( saccharose ).
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   saccharin
   <chemical> In dilute aqueous solution this compound is 300 to 500 times sweeter than sucrose, used as a sweetening agent. ... (17 Dec 1997) ...
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    saccharin
    noun a crystalline substance 500 times sweeter than sugar; used as a calorie-free sweetener
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    Saccharin
    `Saccharin` is the oldest artificial sweetener. The basic substance, benzoic sulfinide, was produced in 1878 by Constantin Fahlberg, a chemist working on coal tar derivatives in Ira Remsen's laboratory at the Johns Hopkins University, and it was he who, accidentally, discovered its intensely sweet nature. Fahlberg and Remsen published articles on benzoic sulfinide in 1879 and 1880. In 1884, now working on his own in New York City, Fahlberg applie...
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    saccharin
    (sak´ә-rin) a white, crystalline compound several hundred times sweeter than sucrose; used as a noncaloric sweetening agent, but now proved to be carcinogenic in test animals.
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    Saccharin
    • (n.) A bitter white crystalline substance obtained from the saccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid; -- so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar (saccharose).
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    saccharin
    organic compound employed as a non-nutritive sweetening agent. It occurs as insoluble saccharin or in the form of various salts, primarily sodium and ... [5 related articles]
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    saccharin
    saccharin (săk'urin) , C7H5NSO3, white, crystalline, aromatic compound. It was discovered accidentally by I. Remsen and C. Fahlberg in 1879. Pure saccharin tastes several hundred times as sweet as sugar. It is not readily soluble in water, but its sodium salt, which is sold commercially, d...
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