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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, of general formula HXn+, which can be transformed into a conjugate base X(n-1)+ by the loss of a proton.

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