Saccharin

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  • noun. A white crystalline powder, C7H5NO3S, having a taste about 500 times sweeter than cane sugar, used as a calorie-free sweetener.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The anhydrid of saccharic acid, C6H10O5. It is a crystalline solid having a bitter taste, dextrorotatory, and non-fermentable.
  • noun. A complex benzin derivative, benzoyl-sulphimide, C6H4SO2.CONH.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A bitter white crystalline substance obtained from the saccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid; -- so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar (saccharose).
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  • noun. a white, crystalline powder, C7H5NO3S, used as an artificial sweetener in food products
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  • noun. a crystalline substance 500 times sweeter than sugar; used as a calorie-free sweetener
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    "I asked if it wasn’t saccharin, why is it called saccharin?"
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