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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to salts or acids forming salts with two atoms of a univalent metal. Na2HPO4 is an example of a dibasic salt.
  • adjective Diprotic.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as bibasic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Chem.) Having two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts; bibasic; -- said of acids, as oxalic or sulphuric acids. Cf. diacid, bibasic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective chemistry (of an acid) containing two replaceable hydrogen atoms
  • adjective chemistry (of a salt) having two atoms of a univalent metal

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