An alternate or archaic name for beryllium or beryllium oxide, used primarily in older scientific texts.
From Greek 'glukus' (sweet) with the suffix '-ine' used in older chemical nomenclature; essentially a variant of glucina from an earlier era of chemistry.
Glucine is a ghost word in modern chemistry—it shows how naming conventions change over time and how scientists had to rename elements as they understood them better!
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