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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various acids containing the peroxy group.
  • noun An inorganic acid, such as perchloric acid, containing the largest proportion of oxygen in a series of related oxyacids.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An acid containing more than the usual amount of oxygen, as acetperacid (CH3CO2.OH), and benzoperacid (C6H5.C02.OH). Many of the peracids are extremely powerful germicides.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun chemistry Any acid that contains a peroxy group - e.g. peracetic acid
  • noun inorganic chemistry The oxyacid of a particular element that has the largest number of oxygen atoms - e.g. perchloric acid

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