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Succinic   Listen
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Succinic  adj.  (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, amber; specif., designating a dibasic acid, first obtained by the dry distillation of amber. It is found in a number of plants, as in lettuce and wormwood, and is also produced artificially as a white crystalline substance having a slightly acid taste.






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"Succinic" Quotes from Famous Books



... slender than the Absinthium, and is distinguished by being scentless, its leaves being green above, and white below. The bitter taste of the true Wormwood is also due to "absinthin," and each kind contains nitrate of potash, tannin, and resin, with succinic, ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie

... of dibromsuccinic acid from brommaleic acid and of isodibromsuccinic acid from bromfumaric acid by the action of fuming hydrobromic acid; the conversion of brommaleic acid into fumaric and then into succinic acid by the action of sodium amalgam; the formation of one and the same tribromsuccinic acid by the action of bromine on brommaleic and on bromfumaric acid; and finally, the conversion of maleic into inactive tartaric acid, and of fumaric into racemic acid by potassium ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 • Various



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