| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| oxalic acid |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ox·al·ic acid |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   k-s l  k |
| NOUN: | A poisonous, colorless crystalline organic acid, HOOCCOOH·2H2O, found in many plants, such as spinach, and used as a bleach and rust remover. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin oxalis, wood sorrel; see oxalis + –ic.
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