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tannic
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tannic \Tan"nic\, a. Of or pertaining to tan; derived from, or resembling, tan; as, tannic acid. Tannic acid . (Chem.) An acid obtained from nutgalls as a yellow amorphous substance, C14H10O9 , having an astringent taste, and forming with ferric salts a ...
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adj. derived from, or resembling, tan or tannin
Usage examples of tannic.
Suppose no mercury is found in the dialyzed fluid, owing to the fact that corrosive sublimate enters into insoluble compounds with albumin, fibrin, mucous membrane, gluten, tannic acid, etc.
From its behaviour with the dyes, and with tannic acid and metallic salts, it would appear that lanuginic acid contains both acidic and basic groups.
There are also found in it cinnamyl acetate, cinnamic acid, phenylpropyl acetate and orthocumaric aldehyde, tannic acid and starch.
There was an acrid smell of tannic acid and over each white table a low fluorescent lamp.
Calumba can be safely combined with salts of iron and alkalies, as it does not contain tannic or gallic acid.
As there is neither tannic nor gallic acid, the activity is due to berberia or berberine, which is associated with another alkaloid called Coptine or Coptina, resembling hydrastia.
There was nothing that a painful week in hospital and plenty of gentian violet or tannic acid jelly wouldn't cure.
Other constituents are traces of a volatile oil, albumen, resin, fat, wax, chlorophyll, tannic acid, grape sugar, gum, extractive, starch, pectin and various alkaline and earthy salts.
Most mordants are metal salts, although there are a few, like tannic acid and tartartic acid, that are not.