sacculmic acid
English
Etymology
From saccharine and ulmic.
Alternative spellings
- sacchulmic acid
Noun
sacculmic acid (uncountable)
- (chemistry, obsolete) An acid obtained as a dark amorphous substance by the long-continued boiling of sucrose with very dilute sulphuric acid.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sacculmic acid under Sacchulmic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)