Word Origin for solanine
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Solanine will stand boiling with strongly alkaline solutions without decomposition; but dilute acids, on warming, hydrolyse.
From very dilute alcoholic solutions (and especially with slow cooling) solanine may be obtained in crystals.
Solanine is soluble in 8000 parts of boiling water, 4000 parts of ether, 500 parts of cold, and 125 of boiling alcohol.
Mature healthy potatoes appear to contain no solanine, but from 150 grms.
This peculiar property is one of the most important tests for the presence of solanine.