A chemical compound or substance, possibly related to or derived from carangid fish or other organisms.
Likely a scientific neologism formed from carang- (from Carangidae) plus the suffix -in, following the pattern of chemical nomenclature.
When chemists name compounds after the organisms they come from, they're building an invisible map of nature's chemistry hidden in living things!
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