A chemical compound that is one of three isomeric forms of methylpyridine, used in organic synthesis and as a solvent.
From collidine, derived from the Latin 'collidere' (to strike together) combined with the chemical suffix '-ine,' referring to its molecular structure formed from collision or combination of simpler compounds.
Collidine was discovered in coal tar in the 1800s, and its three different forms (isomers) all have the exact same atoms arranged differently—like having three different ways to shuffle a deck of cards that still contains the same number of each card!
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