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Combined with acetic acid.

Pertaining to, containing, or derived from, acetyl, as acetic ether, acetic acid. The latter is the acid to which the sour taste of vinegar is due.

To convert into acid or vinegar.

An instrument for estimating the amount of acetic acid in vinegar or in any liquid containing acetic acid.

The act or method of ascertaining the strength of vinegar, or the proportion of acetic acid contained in it. Ure.

A combination of acetic acid with glycerin. Brande & C.

ned by the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime.

obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.

Having a sour taste; sour; acid. "An acetous spirit." Boyle. "A liquid of an acetous kind." Bp. Lowth.

ed of two parts of carbon to three of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Its hydroxide is acetic acid.

In an acid manner.

containing acryl, the hypothetical radical of which acrolein is the hydride; as, acrylic acid.

An acid radical, as acetyl, malonyl, or benzoyl.

mous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. D. C. Eaton.

Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; -- applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.

Hydrolyzing fats; converting neutral fats into glycerin and free fatty acids, esp. by the action of an enzyme; as, adipolytic action.

To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air. His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aërated natural fountains. Carlyle.

The act or preparation of charging with carbonic acid gas or with oxygen.

Light as air; ethereal. Aërial acid, carbonic acid. [Obs.] Ure. -- Aërial perspective. See Perspective.

pirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.