An archaic or alternate spelling of hemin, a chemical compound derived from hemoglobin.
A variant form of 'hemin', this spelling reflects earlier 19th-century chemical nomenclature before standardization of chemical naming conventions.
Different spellings of the same chemical compound show how science had to develop standard naming rules—before the early 1900s, the same molecule might have three different names depending on which country's scientists discovered it!
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