succinic acid

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Molecular structure of succinic acid.

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succinic acid (uncountable)

  1. (organic chemistry) A colourless crystalline dicarboxylic acid, (CH2COOH)2, that occurs naturally in amber and is important in the metabolic Krebs cycle.

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