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hydroxyacetic acid
(encz) | hydroxyacetic acid, n: |
hydroxyacetic acid
(gcide) | Glycolic \Gly*col"ic\, a. (Chem.)
Pertaining to, or derived from, glycol; as, glycolic ether;
glycolic acid.
[1913 Webster]
Glycolic acid (Chem.), an organic acid, found naturally in
unripe grapes and in the leaves of the wild grape
(Ampelopsis quinquefolia), and produced artificially in
many ways, as by the oxidation of glycol, -- whence its
name. It is a sirupy, or white crystalline, substance,
HO.CH2.CO2H, has the properties both of an alcohol and
an acid, and is a type of the hydroxy acids; -- called
also hydroxyacetic acid.
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hydroxyacetic acid
(wn) | hydroxyacetic acid
n 1: a translucent crystalline compound found in sugar cane and
sugar beets and unripe grapes [syn: glycolic acid,
glycollic acid, hydroxyacetic acid] |
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