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- adjective Of or pertaining to the
aldonic acids or their derivatives
Etymologies
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From aldose + -ic
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Examples
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Even before 1880 the aldehyde formula of glucose had been indicated, but Fischer established it by a series of transformations such as oxidation into aldonic acid and the action of phenylhydrazine which he had discovered and which made possible the formation of the phenylhydrazones and the osazones.
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