Meanings
- obsoleteuncountablechemistryoxalic acid
This is not all: who would suspect under the specious guise of “acid of sugar,” an envenomed drug?
1828, John Murray, A Manual of Experiments illustrative of Chemical Science, page 42 more examples
If you distil the nitrous acid on silk, wool, hairs, or skin, you obtain a certain quantity of animal oil, different from that which forms fat, and a portion of acid similar to the acid of sugar […]
1784 July 28, “History of the Royal Academy of Sciences, for the year 1780”, in A New Review, volume 6, page 57It exists plentifully in several well-known plants, as the beautiful Wood-sorrel; but, obtainable from saccharine matter by a chemical process, it has acquired the vulgar name of Acid of Sugar.
1829, Shirley Palmer, Popular illustrations of medicine, page 101
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