cetic acid

English

Noun

cetic acid (uncountable)

1. (archaic, organic chemistry) An acid obtained when spermaceti, saponified by means of potash, is decomposed by an acid.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cetic acid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)