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oxazine definition

ox·azine (äk′sə zēn′, -zin)

noun

any of thirteen compounds having a composition corresponding to the formula CHNO and composed of molecules which contain four atoms of carbon and one atom each of oxygen and nitrogen united in a ring structure

Etymology: ox(a)- + azine

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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