Meaning of acid of sugar | Babel Free

Definitions

oxalic acid

obsolete, uncountable

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.”

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