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    Cocaine (category Tropane alkaloids found in Erythroxylum coca)
    Cocaine (from French cocaïne, from Spanish coca, ultimately from Quechua kúka) is a tropane alkaloid that acts as a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant...
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    constituent of another species, Erythroxylum coca. Hygrine Cuscohygrine Graf, Engelbert; Lude, Waltraud (1977). "Alkaloide aus Erythroxylum vacciniifolium MARTIUS...
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    consider alkaloids a special case of amines. The name "alkaloids" (German: Alkaloide) was introduced in 1819 by German chemist Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Meissner...
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