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Oxalic acid

noun
1.
A toxic colorless crystalline organic acid found in oxalis and other plants; used as a bleach and rust remover and in chemical analysis.  Synonym: ethanedioic acid.





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... usually kill each other by means of particular poisons; that other poisons are used for suicidal purposes; that the photographer takes cyanide of potassium, the medical man and chemist prussic acid or morphia, the poor man vermin-killer or oxalic acid, or carbolic acid, or some such agonising destroyer of life. And thus, though all poisons lead to the same end—stoppage of the breathing and blood circulation—yet each has its own particular way of sending the soul to eternity. ...
— The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 • Various
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Words linked to "Oxalic acid" :   acid, ethanedioic acid


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