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tetrinic
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tetrinic, a. [See Tetra-.].
Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex ketonic acid, C5H6O3 , obtained as a white crystalline substance; -- so called because once supposed to contain a peculiar radical of four carbon atoms. Called also acetyl-acrylic acid . [1913 Webster]
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