Glycine

White monoclinic or hexagonal crystal, or white crystalline powder. Odorless, with special sweetness. The solubility in water is 25g / 100ml at 25 ℃, 39.1g/100ml at 50 ℃, 54.4g/100ml at 75 ℃ and 67.2g/100ml at 100 ℃. It is very difficult to dissolve in ethanol, about 0.06 g in 100 g absolute ethanol. It is almost insoluble in acetone and ether.

It is used in pharmaceutical industry, biochemical test and organic synthesis. It is used as buffer, preparation of tissue culture medium, examination of copper, gold and silver. In medicine, it is used in the treatment of myasthenia gravis, progressive muscular atrophy, gastric acidosis, chronic enteritis, hyperprolinemia in children and other diseases.