pyro-acid Chem.
(ˈpaɪrəʊˈæsɪd)
Also 9 † pyracid.
An acid formed from another acid by dry or destructive distillation: see pyro- 3.
| 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 47/1 The other animal acids..are artificially produced... Such as the..animal pyroacids. 1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 11 Sometimes the saturating power of a vegetable acid is not altered by converting it into a pyroacid. 1866–8 [see pyrogen b]. |