A chemical compound or substance, possibly a type of alkaloid or plant extract used historically in medicine or dyes.
The etymology is uncertain; it may contain alba- (white) combined with a Greek or Latin botanical term. It appears in scientific nomenclature, possibly from 19th-century chemical research.
Albaspidin is one of those scientific names that vanished from common use once chemists started using systematic IUPAC naming—studying old chemical names is like reading a forgotten language of 19th-century pharmacology!
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