lactic acid

English

lactic acid

Pronunciation

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Noun

lactic acid (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) 2-hydroxy-propanoic acid (CH₃.CHOH.CO₂H), a syrupy liquid, soluble in water; found in milk, wine and many fruits; used as a food additive and in many industrial applications.
   • 2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 15 November 2016:

     It was [Roger] Federer's ability to pull him around the court that put the lactic acid and debilitating weight in those legs and he should not have been allowed the luxury of his trainer's help.

Synonyms

• E270 when used as a preservative
• lactonic acid
• milk acid
• 2-hydroxypropanoic acid

Related terms

• lactate

Translations

2-hydroxy-propanoic acid (CH₃.CHOH.CO₂H)

• Catalan: àcid làctic m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乳酸 (zh) (rǔsuān)

• Czech: kyselina mléčná f
• Danish: mælkesyre c
• Dutch: melkzuur (nl) n
• Esperanto: laktacido, lakta acido
• Estonian: piimhape
• Faroese: mjólkarsýra f
• Finnish: maitohappo (fi)
• French: acide lactique (fr) m
• German: Milchsäure (de) f
• Greek: γαλακτικό οξύ n (galaktikó oxý)
• Hungarian: tejsav (hu)
• Icelandic: mjólkursýra f
• Indonesian: asam laktat (id)
• Irish: aigéad lachtach m
• Italian: acido lattico (it) m
• Japanese: 乳酸 (ja) (にゅうさん, nyūsan)
• Kazakh: сүт қышқылы (süt qyşqyly)
• Latin: acidum lacticum n
• Latvian: pienskābe (lv) f
• Macedonian: млечна киселина f (mlečna kiselina)
• Malay: asid laktik
• Maori: waikawa waiū
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: melkesyre m or f, mjølkesyre m or f

  Nynorsk: mjølkesyre f

• Persian: اسید لاکتیک
• Polish: kwas mlekowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: ácido lático m
• Russian: моло́чная кислота́ (ru) f (molóčnaja kislotá)
• Spanish: ácido láctico m
• Swedish: mjölksyra (sv) c
• Thai: กรดแล็กติก, กรดน้ำนม
• Ukrainian: моло́чна кислота́ f (molóčna kyslotá)