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from The Century Dictionary.
- Obtained by subjecting citric acid to the action of heat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, any one of three acids obtained by the distillation of citric acid, and called respectively
citraconic ,itaconic , andmesaconic acid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective chemistry Describing any of the three
unsaturated dicarboxylic acids obtained by thedistillation ofcitric acid .
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