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Definition of Hydroxybutyric acid

1. Noun. Hydroxy derivative of butyric acid.

Definition of Hydroxybutyric acid

1. Noun. (organic compound) Either of the isomeric compounds formed from a butyric acid by substituting a hydrogen atom with a hydroxyl group ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydroxybutyric Acid

Literary usage of Hydroxybutyric acid

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1. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"/3-hydroxybutyric acid. A process of isolating and purifying /3-hydroxybutyric acid, in the form of calcium-zinc hydroxybutyrate (a new double salt of ..."

2. Physiological chemistry: A Text-book and Manual for Students by Albert Prescott Mathews (1916)
"Quantitative determination of acetone and acetoacetic acid and hydroxybutyric acid in the same sample of urine. ..."

3. Practical physiological chemistry by Philip Bovier Hawk (1918)
"It was originally believed that this procedure was reversed and that the acetoacetic acid was formed from the /3-hydroxybutyric acid by oxidation. ..."

4. Treatise on General and Industrial Organic Chemistry by Ettore Molinari (1921)
"/3-hydroxybutyric acid, CH2 - CH(OH) - CH2 - CO2H, is obtained by oxidising aldol or reducing acetoacetic acid, these methods of formation indicating its ..."

5. Practical physiological chemistry: A Book Designed for Use in Courses in by Philip Bovier Hawk (1916)
"0f hydroxybutyric acid. About 10 per cent should be added to the results for ... 3-hydroxybutyric acid may occur in normal human urine to the extent of ..."

6. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"formation of p-hydroxybutyric acid from isopropanol, especially in the tissues. Milk and urine samples taken from cows injected with acetone, ..."

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