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Webster 1913 Edition
Toluic
To-lu′ic
,Adj.
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or designating, one of three metameric acids,
CH3.C6H4.CO2H
, which are related to toluene and analogous to benzoic acids. They are white crystalline substances, and are called respectively orthotoluic
acid, metatoluic
acid, and paratoluic
acid.