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Itaconic acid Moderate

Itaconic acid has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

a crystalline carboxylic acid; occurs in some fermentations of sugars

2

one of the isomeric dicarboxylic acids produced by the distillation of citric acid, or as metabolites by microorganisms, CH₂=C(CO₂H)-CH₂CO₂H

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
acid
Rhyming Words
cid acid scid picid arcid alcid mucid lucid ficid lycid coccid esocid odacid marcid muscid raucid chacid viscid caecid diacid
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