hemin

[ hee-min ]

nounBiochemistry.
  1. the typical, microscopic reddish-brown crystals, C34H32N4O4FeCl, resulting when a sodium chloride crystal, a drop of glacial acetic acid, and some blood are heated on a slide: used to indicate the presence of blood.

Origin of hemin

1
First recorded in 1950–55; hem- + -in2

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Other Idioms and Phrases with hemin

hemin

see fence in.

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