Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or derived from oxalic acid: as, mesoxalic acid, C(OH)2 (CO2H)2, a crystalline solid which readily breaks up into carbonic oxid and oxalic acid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, CH2O2(CO2H)2, obtained from amido malonic acid.
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The reason for this is that gallic acid photodegrades in UVB light, forming mesoxalic acid.
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