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Definition of Mucic acid

1. Noun. A solid acid (C6H10O8) found in milk or sugar.

Definition of Mucic acid

1. Noun. (organic compound) A dicarboxylic acid, HOOC(CH₂OH)₄COOH, produced by the oxidation of the milk sugar galactose. A test for the presence of galactose and/or lactose. ¹

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Literary usage of Mucic acid

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1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1865)
"mucic acid heated per sc first melts, and then decomposes, yielding, ... mucic acid is converted by pentachloride of phosphorus into a peculiar dibas',: ..."

2. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1867)
"1-35 and I part of water, on cooling deposits mucic acid in minute, ... mucic acid is soluble in concentrated sulphuric acid, with which it forms a crimson ..."

3. Elements of Chemistry by Victor Regnault, James Curtis Booth, William L. Faber (1865)
"mucic acid. 498 fully to any bodies to which the etherial solution'is applied. This substance, called collodion, is now extensively used in surgery; ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1883)
"... are the chief products obtained when the ammonia salt of mucic acid, an acid easily obtained by the oxidation of lactose (sugar of milk) or galactose, ..."

5. Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1850)
"It may be easily prepared by heating together in a flask or retort 1 part of milk-sugar, or gum, 4 parts of nitric acid, and 1 of water; the mucic acid is ..."

6. Fownes' Manual of Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1878)
"C2H5)2, obtained by heating mucic acid •with alcohol and sulphuric acid, is crystalline, soluble in hot water, melts at 158° C. (31t>.4° F.), ..."

7. Laboratory Manual of Organic Chemistry by Harry Linn Fisher (1920)
"36 OXIDATION OF A SUGAR mucic acid from Lactose In a porcelain dish, 13-14 cm. in diameter, evaporate over a free flame a solution of 12 grams of lactose in ..."

8. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1865)
"mucic acid heated per sc first melts, and then decomposes, yielding, ... mucic acid is converted by pentachloride of phosphorus into a peculiar dibas',: ..."

9. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1867)
"1-35 and I part of water, on cooling deposits mucic acid in minute, ... mucic acid is soluble in concentrated sulphuric acid, with which it forms a crimson ..."

10. Elements of Chemistry by Victor Regnault, James Curtis Booth, William L. Faber (1865)
"mucic acid. 498 fully to any bodies to which the etherial solution'is applied. This substance, called collodion, is now extensively used in surgery; ..."

11. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1883)
"... are the chief products obtained when the ammonia salt of mucic acid, an acid easily obtained by the oxidation of lactose (sugar of milk) or galactose, ..."

12. Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1850)
"It may be easily prepared by heating together in a flask or retort 1 part of milk-sugar, or gum, 4 parts of nitric acid, and 1 of water; the mucic acid is ..."

13. Fownes' Manual of Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1878)
"C2H5)2, obtained by heating mucic acid •with alcohol and sulphuric acid, is crystalline, soluble in hot water, melts at 158° C. (31t>.4° F.), ..."

14. Laboratory Manual of Organic Chemistry by Harry Linn Fisher (1920)
"36 OXIDATION OF A SUGAR mucic acid from Lactose In a porcelain dish, 13-14 cm. in diameter, evaporate over a free flame a solution of 12 grams of lactose in ..."

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