Crossword-Solution: QUINIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Quinic | a. | Pertaining to, derived from, or connected with, quinine and related compounds; specifically, designating a nonnitrogenous acid obtained from cinchona bark, coffee, beans, etc., as a white crystalline substance. |
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| white crystalline soluble optically active carboxylic acid | 1 answer |
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The old plural of Eye.
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Etym: [Quinine + ketone.] (Chem.) Defn: A crystalline substance, C6H4O2 (called also benzoketone), first obtained by the oxidation of quinic acid and regarded as a double ketone; also, by extension, any one of the series of which quinone proper is the type.
Hydroquinone was obtained by Caventou and Pelletier by heating quinic acid, but these chemists did not recognize its true nature.