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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An acid having one more transferable proton than a specific base.
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- noun chemistry Any
compound , ofgeneral formula HXn+, which can betransformed into aconjugate base X(n-1)+ by the loss of aproton .
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