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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, organic, acid, obtained.
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, organic, acid, obtained.
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, organic, acid, obtained.
Ipomoeic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the oxidation of convolvulin (obtained from jalap, the tubers of Ipomoea purga), an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, organic, acid, obtained.
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, organic, acid, obtained.
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, organic, acid, obtained.
Lecanoric
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid which is obtained from several varieties of lichen (Lecanora, Roccella, etc.), as a whi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, organic, acid, obtained.
Leuconic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or designating, a complex organic acid, obtained as a yellowish white gum by the oxidation of croconic acid.
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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, organic, acid, obtained.
Lophine
noun · 78% connection
A nitrogenous organic base obtained by the oxidation of amarine, and regarded as a derivative of benzoic aldehyde. It is obtained in l…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, organic, acid, obtained.
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, organic, acid, obtained.
Meconinic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid which occurs in opium, and which may be obtained by oxidizing narcotine.
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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, organic, acid, obtained.
Muconic
adjective · 78% connection
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid, obtained indirectly from mucic acid, and somewhat resembling itaconic acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, organic, acid, obtained.
Organic
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the org…
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Orsellinic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid obtained by a partial decomposition of orsellic acid as a white crystalline substance,…
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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, organic, acid, obtained.
Oxidation number
noun · 78% connection
the degree of oxidation of an atom or ion or molecule; for simple atoms or ions the oxidation number is equal to the ionic charge; "th…
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