Taurine

=**TAURINE ** = **By: Marissa ** = =

**Compound Name:** Taurine =toc = **Chemical Formula:** C2H7NO3S

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= = **Density:** 1.734 g/cm3 (at −173.15 °C) **Melting Point:** 305.11 °C

Boiling Point: n/a
**Solubility in Water:** 0.25g in 10ml water **Percent Composition by number:**

Carbon - 14.286 %

Hydrogen - 50 %

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Nitrogen - 7.143 % <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Oxygen - 21.429 %

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Sulfur - 7.143 %

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Percent Composition by Mass:
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Carbon - 19.194 %

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Hydrogen - 5.638 %

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Nitrogen - 11.192 %

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Oxygen - 38.353 %

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Sulfur - 25.621 %

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Isomers:

 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Dimethylsulfamic Acid
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Ethylsulphamic Acid
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">(Methylamino)methanesulfonic Acid
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Ethyl Sulfamate
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Methyl Methylsulfamate
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Ethylsulfamic Acid
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">1-Aminoethanesulfonic Acid
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">N-Methoxyme thanesulfonamide

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px; text-align: left;"> Taurine is an amino acid, which is a chemical that is a required building block of protein. It is found in large amounts in many parts of the body such as the brain, retina, and heart. It is most commonly found in foods like meat and fish. can be found in baby formula, but not in cow's milk. It is used as medicine for multiple things such as congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, liver disease (hepatitis), high cholesterol, cystic fibrosis, epilepsy, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, eye problems, diabetes, and alcohol. It is used as an antioxidant. That means that is protects the body's cells from damage from chemical reactions involving oxygen. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px; text-align: left;">

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px; text-align: left;">**History Of Taurine** Taurine is found naturally in animals and humans. It is produced from cysteine. Cysteine is an amino acid which contains sulfur. Taurine is considered as an organic acid and a sulfonic acid for it contains sulfur. It was discovered by German chemists, Leopold Gmelin and Friedrich Tiedemann. They discovered taurine by isolating the compound from an ox's bile. (produced in the liver and stored by the gall bladder as a digestive juice). The name of the compound came from the latin word "taurus" which means ox or bull.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Chemical Properties/Reaction Tendencies
Taurine is water soluble, meaning that is dissolved when reacting with water. When it is heated, it gives off very toxic fumes that can be harmful.

Taurine is most commonly found in large white crystals or in a white powder.
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