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From ammonium rhodanide + -anine. (Ammonium rhodanide reacts with chloroacetic acid to produce rhodanine.)
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From ammonium rhodanide + -anine. (Ammonium rhodanide reacts with chloroacetic acid to produce rhodanine.)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.