Crossword-Solution: CROTONIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Crotonic | a. | Of or pertaining to, or derived from, a plant of the genus Croton, or from croton oil. |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with CROTONIC (5)
Among the cases of isomerism which it is at least difficult to explain by the aid of the prevailing views are those of maleic and fumaric acids; citraconic and mesaconic acids; certain halogen derivatives of crotonic acid and of cinnamic acid; and coumaric and coumarinic acids.
Crotonic acid (Chem.), a white crystalline organic acid, C3H5.CO2H, of the ethylene, or acrylic acid series.
Note: The acid characteristic of croton oil is tiglic or tiglinic acid, a derivative of crotonic acid.
Etym: [Crotonic + acet-ylene.] (Chem.) Defn: A colorless, volatile, pungent liquid, C4H6, produced artificially, and regarded as an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the acetylene series, and analogous to crotonic acid.
Etym: [Quartene + -yl + -ic.] (Chem.) Defn: Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acrylic acid series, metameric with crotonic acid, and obtained as a colorless liquid; -- so called from having four carbon atoms in the molecule.
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Used 1 time in crossword archives (1989).