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Lactic acid Common

Lactic acid has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

a clear odorless hygroscopic syrupy carboxylic acid found in sour milk and in many fruits

2

2-hydroxy-propanoic acid (CH₃.CHOH.CO₂H), a syrupy liquid, soluble in water; found in milk, wine and many fruits; used as a food additive and in many industrial applications.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
carboxylic 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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