Chavicine

/tʃæˈvaɪsiːn/ noun

An alternative chemical name (now obsolete) for the compound that gives pepper its pungent taste; currently known as piperine.

A variant spelling of chavicin with the suffix '-ine' instead of '-cin,' both common 19th-century chemical nomenclature endings. This shows how chemists used multiple naming conventions before modern IUPAC standardization, often creating multiple names for the same molecule.

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