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==Discovery and name== Taurine was first isolated from ox bile in 1827 by German scientists [[Friedrich Tiedemann]] and [[Leopold Gmelin]].{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}<ref name=TiedemannGmelin1827>{{cite journal |title=Einige neue Bestandtheile der Galle des Ochsen| vauthors = Tiedemann F, Gmelin L |journal=Annalen der Physik|volume=85|issue=2|pages=326–337|year=1827|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1423514|doi=10.1002/andp.18270850214|bibcode= 1827AnP....85..326T }}{{primary source inline|date=April 2025}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=April 2025}}<!--A single primary source by purported discoverers cannot establish "first" anything; secondary sources are needed.--> It was subsequently identified in human bile in 1846 by [[Edmund Ronalds]].<ref name=Ronalds2019>{{cite journal | vauthors = Ronalds BF |date=2019|title=Bringing Together Academic and Industrial Chemistry: Edmund Ronalds' Contribution|journal=Substantia|volume=3|issue=1|pages=139–152|url = https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/subs/article/view/211 | access-date = 7 April 2025}}{{primary source inline|date=April 2025}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=April 2025}}<!--Same comment as preceding.--> The common chemical name, taurine, derives from the [[Latin]] {{wikt-lang|la|taurus}} ([[cognate]] to [[Ancient Greek]] {{wikt-lang| grc| ταῦρος}}, {{Transliteration|grc|taûros}}) meaning [[bull]] or [[ox]].{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}
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