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Convolvulin
noun · 78% connection
A glucoside occurring in jalap (the root of a convolvulaceous plant), and extracted as a colorless, tasteless, gummy mass of powerful…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, acid, obtained, oxidation.
Cyanuric acid
unknown · 78% connection
an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, acid, obtained, oxidation.
Hydrosorbic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from sorbic acid when this takes up hydrogen; as, hydrosorbic acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, acid, obtained, oxidation.
Hydrosulphurous
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the reduction of sulphurous acid. See Hyposulphurous acid, under Hyposulphurous.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, acid, obtained, oxidation.
Jalap
noun · 78% connection
The tubers of the Mexican plant Ipomoea purga (or Exogonium purga), a climber much like the morning-glory. The abstract, extract, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, acid, obtained, oxidation.
Kynurenic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from the urine of dogs. By decomposition the acid yields a nitrogenous base (called ky…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, acid, obtained, oxidation.
Lactonic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the oxidation of milk sugar (lactose).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, acid, obtained, oxidation.
Lantanuric
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous organic acid of the uric acid group, obtained by the decomposition of allantoin, and usua…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, acid, obtained, oxidation.
Leuconic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or designating, a complex organic acid, obtained as a yellowish white gum by the oxidation of croconic acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, acid, obtained, oxidation.
Lithobilic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to or designating an organic acid of the tartaric acid series, distinct from lithofellic acid, but, like it, obtained from…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, acid, obtained, oxidation.
Malonic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid produced artifically as a white crystalline substance, CH2.(CO2H)2, and so called because obtai…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, acid, obtained, oxidation.
Mechoacan
noun · 78% connection
A species of jalap, of very feeble properties, said to be obtained from the root of a species of Convolvulus (C. Mechoacan); -- so cal…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, acid, obtained, oxidation.
Melassic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from molasses or glucose, and probably identical with saccharic acid. See Saccharic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, acid, obtained, oxidation.
Metaphosphoric
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or designating, a monobasic acid, HPO3, analogous to nitric acid, and, by heating phosphoric acid, obtained as a crysta…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, acid, obtained, oxidation.
Naphthalic
adjective · 78% connection
Formerly, designating an acid probably identical with phthalic acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, acid, obtained, oxidation.
Oenanthylic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, oenanthyl; specifically, designating an acid formerly supposed to be identical with the ac…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, acid, obtained, oxidation.
Opianic
adjective · 78% connection
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid obtained by the oxidation of narcotine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, acid, obtained, oxidation.
Oxamic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid NH2.C2O2.HO obtained as a fine crystalline powder, intermediate between oxalic acid and oxamide…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, acid, obtained, oxidation.