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pyrocitric

pyrocitric adjective: describing any of the three unsaturated dicarboxylic acids obtained by the distillation of citric acid.

Adjective

pyrocitric (not comparable)

  1. Describing any of the three unsaturated dicarboxylic acids obtained by the distillation of citric acid.

Origin of pyrocitric

From pyro- + citric.

Words formed from pyrocitric

Questions about pyrocitric

What does pyrocitric mean?
Pyrocitric means describing any of the three unsaturated dicarboxylic acids obtained by the distillation of citric acid.
What part of speech is pyrocitric?
Pyrocitric is an adjective.

Words near pyrocitric in the dictionary

  1. pyrochroid
  2. pyrochroids
  3. pyrochroite
  4. pyrocitrate
  5. pyrocitrates
  6. pyrocitric
  7. pyrocitric acid
  8. pyroclast
  9. pyroclastic
  10. pyroclastic density current
  11. pyroclastic flow

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