Definition of Glicolic
Gly*col"ic (?), a. (Chem.)
Pertaining to, or derived from, glycol; as, glycolic
ether; glycolic acid.
Glycolic acid (Chem.), an organic
acid, found naturally in unripe grapes and in the leaves of the wild
grape (Ampelopsis quinquefolia), and produced artificially in
many ways, as by the oxidation of glycol, -- whence its name.
It is a sirupy, or white crystalline, substance,
HO.CH2.CO2H, has the properties both of an
alcohol and an acid, and is a type of the hydroxy acids; -- called
also hydroxyacetic acid.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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