A colourless crystalline fatty acid, (CH2)2(COOH)2; r.d. 1.6; m.p. 185°C; b.p. 235°C. A weak carboxylic acid, it is produced by fermentation of sugar or ammonium tartrate and used as a sequestrant and in making dyes. It occurs in living organisms as an intermediate in metabolism, especially in the Krebs cycle.
Butanedioic acid
See succinate.
- Columbus, Christopher (1451–1506)
- Columbus Control Centre
- columella
- column
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- columnar
- columnar epithelium
- columnar joint
- columnar section
- column chromatography
- column density
- column equivalence
- column-major order
- column operation
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- column rank
- column space
- column vector
- colure
- COM
- com-
- coma
- Coma Berenices
- Coma Cluster
- coma, cometary