ATROGLYCERIC

ACID, n. A%t/’ro-glits-etr/i2k, atroglycérique. Ger., Atroglycerinsäure, ropionic acid, A i te geide C yn.:a enyldioxymonobasic acid, GpHg0, = Cally OHS (CO.OH) — CH2.0H. [* Ber. d. dtsch. chem, U xvi DL Boot | [ r. d. dtsch. chem. Gesellsch.,” xvi, 1883, _ATROGULARIS (Lat.), adj. "ro(ro? u”(gu*)-la(la3)/- riis, From afer, black, and gulo, the throat. ie Sait: Having a black throat (a zoological species-naime). [13,195 monobasic acid, CpH) 903, or, combined with water of crystallization, C,H 192. + $H,0. It probably has the structural composition CHs — CCH, (OH) — CO.OH, or that of a phenyl lactic acid (hence isomeric with tropic acid), and not, as Fittig and Wurster give it, CgHs —.OH) — CO.OH. [“ Jahresb.... d. reinen Chem.,” 1882, p. 872 (B); B, 225.]