A basic or alkaline nitrogen-containing organic compound; historically used to describe certain nitrogenous substances or amines.
From azote (nitrogen) + -ine (a suffix for alkaline organic compounds, from Latin -īnus). This term was used in 19th-century organic chemistry before modern nomenclature standardized the naming of nitrogenous bases.
Azotine shows how chemistry naming evolved—the '-ine' suffix is still used for compounds like aniline and nicotine, all descendants of that old French word 'azote' for nitrogen.
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