Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to citric acid.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or derived from lemons or citrons.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the citron or lemon.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or related to citric acid
Examples
“He next, by the aid of the same manual, prepared a mixture which he called citric acid, though any other name would have suited it equally well; and of this, as neither he nor anybody else had any use for it, he daily produced large quantities.”
“He takes limes, onion and hot sauce and makes ceviche, which is fresh fish soaked in citric acid, which cooks it.”
“a mixture which he called citric acid, though any other name would have suited it equally well; and of this, as neither he nor anybody else had any use for it, he daily produced large quantities.”
“Orange, lemon and pomelo, although they contain citric acid, should be considered safe for consumption, for they contain plenty of potassium, and that would produce alkaline urine, and thereby do not disturb the body’s immunity.”
“The Krebs cycle, also known as the citric acid cycle or the tricarboxylic acid cycle, is one of the most important reaction sequences in biochemistry.”
“Pyruvate gets passed on to the next step, called the citric acid cycle.”
“This juice, which is called citric acid, may be preserved in bottles for a considerable time, by covering it with a thin stratum of oil.”
“SLS can be an irritant at high concentration levels -- similar to other natural ingredients, such as citric acid (lemons) or acetic acid (vinegar).”
“Sodium chloride being the principal noxious element in sea water, and soda in combination with a vegetable or organic acid, such as citric acid, tartaric acid, or malic acid, being innocuous, the conclusion is that the element of evil to be avoided is _chlorine_.”
“They also had documents glorifying Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and showing how to make a pipe-bomb with common ingredients such as citric acid and hair bleach, he said.”
Lists
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CHEM - acids
acetic, arsenic, benzoic, boric, butanoic, carbonic, chlorous, chromic, citric, formic, hydrazoic, hydrocyanic and 19 more...
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So, this is just a plain list of those words. Don't expect ...hobble, mackerel, crone, cavort, hoyden, rheumy, scatter, hiss, recoil, trundle, shatter, flaxen and 200 more...
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Acid Jazz
sulfuric, hydrochloric, citric, hydrofluoric, nitric, ascorbic, perchloric, hydroiodic, hydrobromic, formic, acetic, hydrocyanic and 55 more...
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bamboozle, flippant, hoity-toity, madagascar, squish, eschew, runestaff, rotund, scheherezade, bandicoot, succulent, gambit and 23 more...
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