niacin en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /ˈnaɪəsɪn/
Etymology
in 1942 derived from nicotinic + acid + vitamin, chosen to dissociate it from nicotine, to avoid the perception that vitamins or niacin-rich food contains nicotine, or that cigarettes contain vitamins.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A water-soluble vitamin, a component of vitamin B complex, found in meat, yeast, and dairy products; it is essential to metabolism.
Mixing the alkali into the recipe in the right way chemically releases the otherwise unavailable niacin in the corn, which stops pellagra in its tracks, and allowed corn-based agricultural populations to grow and spread.
2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 7, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
Deriveds
Synonyms
vitamin PP (historic names) · nicotinic acid · pellagra-preventive factor · PP-factor · vitamin P-P · vitamin B3 · E375 when used as a colour retention agent
Translations (9)
cmn 煙酸 /烟酸 (water-soluble vitamin) · sw niasini (water-soluble vitamin) · tr niyasin (water-soluble vitamin) · fr niacine (water-soluble vitamin) · ja ナイアシン (water-soluble vitamin) · fi niasiini (water-soluble vitamin) · it niacina (water-soluble vitamin) · de Niacin (water-soluble vitamin) · ko 니코틴산 (water-soluble vitamin)