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viridine
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viridine, n. [L. viridis green.].
A greenish, oily, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C12H19N7 , obtained from coal tar, and probably consisting of a mixture of several metameric compounds which are higher derivatives of the base pyridine. [1913 Webster]
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