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-ine


-ine is a suffix used in chemistry to denote two kinds of substance. The first is a chemically basic and alkaloidal substance. It was proposed by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac in an editorial accompanying a paper by Friedrich Sertürner describing the isolation of the alkaloid "morphium", which was subsequently renamed to "morphine". Examples include quinine, morphine and guanidine. The second usage is to denote a hydrocarbon of the second degree of unsaturation. Examples include hexine and heptine. With simple hydrocarbons, this usage is identical to the IUPAC suffix -yne.

The suffix is usually pronounced either /n/ or /ɪn/ depending on the word it appears in and the accent of the speaker. In a few words (for example, quinine and strychnine), the /n/ sound is normal in some accents. Gasoline ends with /n/; glycerine more often with /ɪn/ than with /n/.


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