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triazine

triazine

1 9.9
A chemical with a ring of three nitrogen and three carbon atoms
  • noun
  • /ˈtraɪəˌzin/
  • Specialized
: triazina
  • Researchers are studying the properties of triazine isomers to improve agricultural chemicals.

Examples

  • Well, several were triazine alternatives like atrazine.

  • If you have any former colleagues still at GSK, you should ask them whether all the ELT libraries are triazine and peptides.

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  • And every time we got a triazine lead, most chemists tossed it out...

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  • Another good one from Japan is which contains triazines is Kosei and this is a good Japanese brand.

  • The main issue is that most of the encoding schemes only work well with simple chemistry, so triazines and peptides are the main libraries ever made.

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  • I saw a talk pre-2001 at GSK on how these triazine libraries (unencoded) were the dog's dangly bits as hits.

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  • In organic chemistry, triazine compounds are often used as herbicides.

  • Some triazine derivatives show potential for use in drug development.

Surface Forms

triazine singular
triazines plural

Morphology

triazine = azine (opaque) = tri + azine

The element 'tri-' (three) is clear, but '-azine' is a specialized chemical combining form unfamiliar to general learners, so the compound's meaning is not derivable by an average B1 learner.

Etymology

Triazine breaks into tri- meaning 'three' and -azine, a chemical ending that 'contains nitrogen'. So triazine names a ring with six atoms where three are nitrogen, which helps you remember that triazines are chemicals built around a 'three-nitrogen' ring.