Meaning of acid of sugar | Babel Free
Examples
“If you distil the nitrous acid on silk, wool, hairs, or skin, you obtain⟳ a certain quantity of animal oil, different from that which forms fat, and a portion of acid similar to the acid of sugar […]”
“This is not all: who would suspect⟳ under the specious guise of “acid of sugar,” an envenomed drug?”
“It exists plentifully in several well-known plants, as the beautiful Wood-sorrel; but, obtainable from saccharine matter⟳ by a chemical process⟳, it has acquired the vulgar name⟳ of Acid of Sugar.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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