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Definition of Dibasic acid
1. Noun. An acid containing two replaceable hydrogen atoms per molecule.
Medical Definition of Dibasic acid
1. An acid containing two ionizable atoms of hydrogen in the molecule. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dibasic Acid
Literary usage of Dibasic acid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"... dibasic acid ... acid reaction the best of all methods for detecting a dibasic
acid of the hexose type. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"I have shown elsewhere* that the substitution of COOEt or COOMe for one COOH
group in a dibasic acid reduces the acid constant of the latter to ..."
3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"In the case of a symmetrical dibasic acid, the same acid ester is formed by ...
With an unsymmetrical dibasic acid, two isomeric acid esters (the a and the ..."
4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"The action of alkyl iodides on the acid silver salts, if these can be prepared,
or on the acid potassium salts. ln the case of a symmetrical dibasic acid, ..."
5. An Advanced Course of Instruction in Chemical Principles by Arthur Amos Noyes, Miles Standish Sherrill (1922)
"Polybasic acids ionize in stages; thus, a dibasic acid H2A ionizes according to
the equations H2A = H++HA- and HA~ = H++A-. The equilibrium-constants K2 and ..."
6. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"When boiled with mineral acida or alkalis, they mostly take up the elements of
1 atom of water, and regenerate the corresponding dibasic acid, and ammonia ..."