glycin
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A phenolic derivative of glycine, N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)glycine, used as a photographic developer.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Glycin is a versatile paper developer that produces a strong, deep black on bromide papers and brown to sepia tones on warm-tone chloride and chlorobromide papers."
- "Glycin immersed in LN₂ formed an amorphous product. Upon heating to –65 °C an unidentified crystalline phase of glycin was observed, which transformed at ≈ 55 °C to 2-glycin."
- "Glycin developers are non-staining and have exceptionally good keeping properties, but are too slow in action for general use."
- "The level of glycin (Table 4) in the serum and the plasma of autistic patients does not show consistent changes."