SUCCINIC ACID


Meaning of SUCCINIC ACID in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ (ˌ)sək-ˈsi-nik- ]

noun

Etymology: French succinique, from Latin succinum amber

Date: 1790

: a crystalline dicarboxylic acid C 4 H 6 O 4 found widely in nature and active in energy-yielding metabolic reactions

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