Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to amber; obtained from amber.
Wiktionary
- adj. organic chemistry Of or pertaining to succinic acid
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, amber; specif., designating a dibasic acid, C�H�.(CO�H)�, first obtained by the dry distillation of amber. It is found in a number of plants, as in lettuce and wormwood, and is also produced artificially as a white crystalline substance having a slightly acid taste.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or obtained from amber
Etymologies
- Latin succinum, amber (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It operates the world's first manufacturing plant dedicated to mass-producing a chemical called succinic acid by fermenting sugar from agricultural crops.”
“Subsequent inquiry, careful research with the refinements of modern chemistry, have been applied to this problem, and they have shown that Lavoisier was not quite correct; that what he says is quite true for about 95 per cent. of the sugar, but that the other 5 per cent., or nearly so, is converted into two other things; one of them, matter which is called succinic acid, and the other matter which is called glycerine, which you all know now as one of the commonest of household matters.”
“Alar is manufactured by mixing succinic anhydride with 1,1,dimethylhydrazine UDMH, a toxic component of rocket fuel.”
“I wrote for this theme, albeit a little late, at succinic. blogspot.com.”
“Caprylic and succinic triglycerides also emollients”
“I don't really know how the whole link-back thing works, but here's my post on the current theme: succinic.blogspot.com”
“I wrote for this theme, albeit a little late, at succinic.blogspot.com.”
“(One popular brand lists 11 ingredients, including succinic acid.)”
“Thus we have come to this conclusion, as the result of our inquiry, that the fermentation of sugar, the splitting of the sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid, glycerine, and succinic acid, is the result of nothing but the vital activity of this little fungus, the torula.”
“In 1998, two leading Japanese researchers, Yamaguchi and Ninomiya, published a list of 39 substances they believed to trigger umami, including amino acids, ibotenic and tricolomic acids, succinic acid, theanine, and an octopeptide compound of 8 amino acids.”
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