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Rosaniline


n.

A complex nitrogenous base, C20H21N3O , obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, as a colorless crystalline substance which forms red salts. These salts are essential components of many of the socalled aniline dyes, as fuchsine , aniline red , etc. By extension, any one of the series of substances derived from, or related to, rosaniline proper.


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