Definition of Oxalacetic acid

1. Noun. An acid formed by oxidation of maleic acid (as in metabolism of fats and carbohydrates).

Exact synonyms: Oxaloacetic Acid
Generic synonyms: Acid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oxalacetic Acid

oxacillin
oxacillin sodium
oxacillins
oxacyclic
oxadiazepine
oxadiazinane
oxadiazine
oxadiazines
oxadiazol
oxadiazole
oxadiazoles
oxadiazon
oxal-
oxalacetate
oxalacetates
oxalacetic acid (current term)
oxalaemia
oxalaldehyde
oxalamide
oxalamides
oxalan
oxalantin
oxalate
oxalate calculus
oxalated
oxalates
oxalating
oxaldehyde
oxaldehydes
oxalethyline

Literary usage of Oxalacetic acid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Organic Chemistry for Advanced Students by Julius Berend Cohen (1918)
"Decomposition of oxalacetic acid ... The decomposition of pure aqueous or acidified solutions of oxalacetic acid phenylhydrazone, when heated at 100°, ..."

2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1903)
"This oxalacetic acid fuses at 146°, that prepared by Fenton, by applying his method of oxidation to malic acid ..."

3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1904)
"Preliminary experiments show that the decomposition of oxalacetic acid itself in aqueous solution is more complicated than that of its hydrazone ; products ..."

4. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry ; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Edgar Fahs Smith, Georg Schroeter (1899)
"Nitrogen Derivatives of oxalacetic acid (B. 24, 1198). Ammonia and Oxalacetic ester combine to a body which has one of the following formulas : CO,C.HS . ..."

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