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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 aperoxy group - e.g.peracetic acid - noun inorganic chemistry The
oxyacid of a particularelement that has the largest number ofoxygen atoms - e.g.perchloric acid
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