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acid of sugar

noun

Definitions

  1. oxalic acid

    • If you distil the nitrous acid on silk, wool, hairs, or skin, you obtain a certain quantity of animal oil, different from that which forms fat, and a portion of acid similar to the acid of sugar […]
    • This is not all: who would suspect under the specious guise of “acid of sugar,” an envenomed drug?
    • It exists plentifully in several well-known plants, as the beautiful Wood-sorrel; but, obtainable from saccharine matter by a chemical process, it has acquired the vulgar name of Acid of Sugar.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for acid of sugar. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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