tartronic acid

English

Noun

tartronic acid (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) An organic acid obtained by reduction of mesoxalic acid.

Synonyms

• hydroxymalonic acid

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tartronic acid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)