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Webster 1913 Edition

Emodin

Em′o-din

,
Noun.
(Chem.)
An orange-red crystalline substance,
C15H10O5
, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; – so called from a species of rhubarb (
Rheum emodei
).

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