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Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline, organic acid, resembling cholic acid, found in the biliary intestinal concretions (bezoar stones) common in certain species of antelope.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the locust; -- formerly used to designate a supposed acid.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, hops; specifically, designating an acid obtained by the decomposition of lupulin.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid resembling luteolin, but obtained from the flowers of Euphorbia cyparissias.

A high explosive consisting principally of picric acid, used as a shell explosive in the British service; -- so named from the proving grounds at Lydd, England.

ning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium. Magnesia alba Etym: [L.] (Med. Chem.), a bulky white amorphous substance, consisting of a hydrous basic carbonate of magnesium, and used as a mild cathartic.

A salt of malamic acid.

A white crystalline substance forming the ethyl salt of malamic acid.

Of or pertaining an acid intermediate between malic acid and malamide, and known only by its salts.

The acid amide derived from malic acid, as a white crystalline substance metameric with asparagine.

A salt of malic acid.

A salt of maleic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the ethylene series, metameric with fumaric acid and obtained by heating malic acid.

A hypothetical radical derived from maleic acid.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, apples; as, malic acid. Malic acid, a hydroxy acid obtained as a substance which is sirupy or crystallized with difficulty, and has a strong but pleasant sour taste. It occurs in many fruits, as in green apples, currants, etc. It is levorotatory or dextrorotatory according to the temper…

At salt of malonic acid.

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

A hydrocarbon radical, CH2.(CO)2, from malonic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, maltose; specif., designating an acid called also gluconic or dextronic acid. See Gluconic.

ing matter, but by producing a certain change in the fiber by the action of dilute nitric acid. Tomlinson.