malonic

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Adjective

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CIDE DICTIONARY

malonic, a.

Pertaining to, or designating, a dicarboxylic acid produced artifically as a white crystalline substance, CH2.(CO2H)2, and so called because obtained by the oxidation of malic acid. [1913 Webster]

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