arginine

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Noun — An amino acid found in animal foods that takes part in several important processes in the body.

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Arginine is a scientific and nutritional term, mostly used in biochemistry, medicine and food science.

Etymology

The name comes from the German word Arginin, which drew on the Ancient Greek words for silver and for silvery or brightly shining. It refers to the silver-white appearance of arginine nitrate crystals when the substance was first refined from lupin seedlings by Ernst Schulze and Ernst Steiger in 1886.

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Frequently asked questions

What is arginine?

Arginine is an amino acid, one of the building blocks of protein, that occurs in animal foods and plays a part in various processes in the body.

Where does the name arginine come from?

It comes from Greek words meaning silver and shining, because the crystals of arginine nitrate looked silvery white when the compound was first isolated in 1886.

Who first isolated arginine?

It was first refined from lupin seedlings by the chemists Ernst Schulze and Ernst Steiger in 1886.

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