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Webster 1913 Edition

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(Chem.)

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex organic acid produced as a white crystalline substance by the action of nitrous acid on hydroquinone.

nitranilic acid ‎(uncountable)

(organic chemistry) A complex organic acid produced by the action of nitrous acid on hydroquinone.