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Interesting fact - nicotine is one of a family of chemicals/drugs/poisons known as alkaloids including coca
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The name "alkaloids" (German: Alkaloide) was introduced in 1819 by the German chemist Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Meißner, and is derived from late Latin root alkali. Which, in turn comes from the Arabic al-qalwī meaning 'ashes of plants'.
There is no unique method for naming alkaloids. Many individual names are formed by adding the suffix "ine" to the species or genus name.
For example, atropine is isolated from the plant Atropa belladonna; strychnine is obtained from the seed of the Strychnine tree. Where several alkaloids are extracted from one plant their names are often distinguished by variations in the suffix: "idine", "anine", "aline", "inine" etc.
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Alkaloid - Wikipedia
And further research, the discovery of alkaloids was fundamental in the development of modern medicine.