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Pyruvic acid Moderate

Pyruvic acid has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a colorless acid formed as an important intermediate in metabolism or fermentation

2

A yellowish organic acid which occurs as an intermediate in many metabolic processes, especially glycolysis.

See Also
intermediate pyroracemic acid fermentation pyruvyl metabolism phosphoenolpyruvic acid hydroxypyruvic acid bromopyruvic acid
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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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