Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A white, crystalline vitamin, C6H8O6, found in citrus fruits, tomatoes, potatoes, and leafy green vegetables and used to prevent scurvy. Also called vitamin C.
Wiktionary
- n. chemistry A white crystalline organic compound, C6H8O6, found in citrus fruits and many vegetables; it is an antioxidant and an efficient scavenger of free radicals.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits) and vegetables; prevents scurvy
Etymologies
- a-1 + scorb(ut)ic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A bottle of concentrated ascorbic acid dissolved the rotting fabric sufficiently to wash the entire mess down the drain and although his hands trembled, he couldn't prevent them from pouring it.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ascorbic acid’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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ENVI - Collocations ABC
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
AA battery, aa lava, aapa mire, abandon the project, abandon the sewer..., abandoned car, abandoned dyke, abandoned farm, abandoned field, abandoned industr..., abandoned industr..., abandoned land and 5386 more...
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Open List - Where's The Food? Additives
A place to list those ~things~ that manufacturers put in the "foods" we eat. As this list grows it will begin to look like a list from a supplier of chemicals, I predict.
ferrous sulfate, salt, monosodium glutamate, modified food starch, disodium phosphate, artificial flavor, artificial color, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, ascorbic acid, disodium edta, hydrolyzed corn g... and 21 more...
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hernesheir Vitamin C - as a food additive, its likely an inorganic chemical product. Nov 6, 2009