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kinic acid

kinic acid is the alternative form of quinic acid.

Meaning of quinic acid

Noun

quinic acid (countable and uncountable, plural quinic acids)

  1. A white crystalline acid, tetrahydroxy-cyclohexanecarboxylic acid, obtained from cinchona bark, coffee beans and yerba mate; used as an astringent, and in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals

Questions about kinic acid

What is kinic acid the alternative form of?
Kinic acid is the alternative form of quinic acid.

Words near kinic acid in the dictionary

  1. kinhood
  2. Kinhs
  3. Kinhu
  4. Kinhwa
  5. kinic
  6. kinic acid
  7. kinichilite
  8. kinickinic
  9. kinickinick
  10. Kinikinao
  11. kinikinic

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