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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A colorless crystalline dicarboxylic acid, C4H6O4, occurring naturally in amber and important in the Krebs cycle. It is also synthesized for use in pharmaceuticals and perfumes.
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- noun organic chemistry A
colourless crystalline dicarboxylic acid , (CH2COOH)2, thatoccurs naturally inamber and isimportant in themetabolic Krebs cycle .
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- noun a dicarboxylic acid (C4H6O4) active in metabolic processes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French succinique, from Latin succinum, amber.]
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