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Succinic acid

noun
1.
A dicarboxylic acid (C4H6O4) active in metabolic processes.






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... shown that Lavoisier was not quite correct; that what he says is quite true for about 95 per cent. of the sugar, but that the other 5 per cent., or nearly so, is converted into two other things; one of them, matter which is called succinic acid, and the other matter which is called glycerine, which you all know now as one of the commonest of household matters. It may be that we have not got to the end of this refined analysis yet, but at any rate, I suppose I may say—and I speak with some little hesitation for fear my friend Professor ...
— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley



Words linked to "Succinic acid" :   carboxylic acid



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