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hydroxybutyric acids

hydroxybutyric acids is the plural of hydroxybutyric acid.

Meaning of hydroxybutyric acid

Noun

hydroxybutyric acid (plural hydroxybutyric acids)

  1. Either of the isomeric compounds formed from a butyric acid by substituting a hydrogen atom with a hydroxyl group
    • alphahydroxybutyric acid - 2-hydroxy-butanoic acid

Questions about hydroxybutyric acids

What is hydroxybutyric acids the plural of?
Hydroxybutyric acids is the plural of hydroxybutyric acid.

Words near hydroxybutyric acids in the dictionary

  1. hydroxybutanoates
  2. hydroxybutyrate
  3. hydroxybutyrates
  4. hydroxybutyric
  5. hydroxybutyric acid
  6. hydroxybutyric acids
  7. hydroxycalciferol
  8. hydroxycancrinite
  9. hydroxycarbamate
  10. hydroxycarbamates
  11. hydroxycarbamide

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