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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bivalent organic radical, CH2CO.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A divalent, compound radical, CO.CH2, regarded as the essential radical of glycolic acid, and a large series of related compounds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry The
univalent radical HO-CH2-CO- derived fromglycolic acid
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