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Webster 1913 Edition

Oxyacid

Oxˊy-ac′id

,

Noun.

[

Oxy-

(a)

+

acid

.]

(Chem.)

An acid containing oxygen, as chloric acid or sulphuric acid; – contrasted with the

hydracids

, which contain no oxygen, as hydrochloric acid. See

, and

.