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Definition of Glycolic acid
1. Noun. A translucent crystalline compound found in sugar cane and sugar beets and unripe grapes.
Definition of Glycolic acid
1. Noun. (chemistry) the simplest alpha-hydroxy acid, hydroxy-acetic acid, found in sugar cane and unripe grapes; used in cosmetics etc ¹
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Medical Definition of Glycolic acid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Glycolic Acid
Literary usage of Glycolic acid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Study of the Compounds of Carbon, Or, Organic Chemistry by Ira Remsen, William Ridgely Orndorff (1922)
"Finally, as an alcohol, glycolic acid forms ethereal salts, ... This is glycolic
acid in which the hydrogen of the hydroxyl is replaced by acetyl, ..."
2. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1859)
"It is partly resolved into glycolic acid and ... The suggestion of R. Hofmann ,*"»
539) that glycolic acid is formed, together with a metallic chloride, ..."
3. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1867)
"... admits of displacement by a metal or an organic radicle like ethyl, the acids
exhibit their true diatomic character (p. 356). (1308) glycolic acid ..."
4. A Text book of physiology by Michael Foster (1881)
"By further oxidation a member of the glycolic series cai converted into a member
of the oxalic series, thus : glycolic acid. Oxalic acid. ..."
5. Chemistry, inorganic and organic: With Experiments and a Comparison of by Charles Loudon Bloxam (1867)
"glycolic acid. Oxalic add. By the action of nascent hydrogen upon oxalic acid,
the 0, in tl- radical may be again displaced by H2, so that glycolic acid is ..."
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