Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Made by heating malic acid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Old Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid now called
maleic acid .
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- adjective obsolete ,(
chemistry )maleic
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Malic acid has no smell, but a very sour taste, deliquesces by absorption of moisture from the air, is soluble in alcohol, fuses at 150° Fahr., is decomposed at a heat of 348°, and affords by distillation a peculiar acid -- the pyromalic.
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