An alternate spelling of carotene; the yellow-orange pigment found in carrots and other vegetables.
From German Karotin, an alternate transliteration of the original term. Used interchangeably with 'carotene' in older scientific literature.
'Carotin' and 'carotene' are the same molecule with different spellings—a linguistic remnant of how German and French scientific traditions developed in parallel before standardizing.
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