saccharic acid
a white, needlelike, crystalline, water-soluble solid or syrup, C6H10O8, usually made by the oxidation of cane sugar, glucose, or starch by nitric acid.
Origin of saccharic acid
1- Also called glucaric acid.
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How to use saccharic acid in a sentence
Prepare a bath with one and one-half per cent., of the weight of feathers, saccharic acid, one-quarter per cent.
The Practical Ostrich Feather Dyer | Alexander PaulUsed to make nitro-saccharate of lead, and as a source of saccharic acid.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II | Arnold Cooley
British Dictionary definitions for saccharic acid
/ (sæˈkærɪk) /
a white soluble solid dicarboxylic acid obtained by the oxidation of cane sugar or starch; 2,3,4,5-tetrahydroxy-hexanedioic acid. Formula: COOH(CHOH) 4 COOH
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