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Definition of Piperic
1. a. Pertaining to, or derived from, or designating, a complex organic acid found in the products of different members of the Pepper family, and extracted as a yellowish crystalline substance.
Definition of Piperic
1. describing an acid made from piperine [adj]
Medical Definition of Piperic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Piperic
Literary usage of Piperic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"Nitric acid, even when dilute, converts piperic acid into an ... piperic acid
added to fused potassium-hydrate containing a little water in excess, ..."
2. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik. Holleman (1920)
"On boiling with alkalis, it yields piperic acid (353), ... Piperine must, therefore,
be a substituted amide of piperic acid, containing the ..."
3. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1862)
"piperic acid dissolves in 270 pts. of absolute alcohol, easily in the same liquid
at the boiling heat. It dissolves but sparingly in ether, either hot or ..."
4. Foods: Their Composition and Analysis by Alexander Wynter Blyth, Meredith Wynter Blyth (1903)
"... black pepper range from 0'39 to 0'77 per cent., mean value 0'56 per cent.; white
pepper contains smaller quantities, from 0'21 to 0'42 per cent. piperic ..."
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