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quinic, kinic, a. Chem.|ˈkwɪnɪk, ˈkɪnɪk|
[f. quin-a + -ic. Cf. F. quinique.]
Derived from quina. quinic acid: a vegetable acid found chiefly in cinchona barks. quinic fever: a fever which sometimes attacks persons engaged in the manufacture of quinine (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1897).
1814Sir H. Davy Agric. Chem. 108 The Kinic Acid in a Salt afforded by Peruvian bark. 1857Miller Elem. Chem. iii. 352 Kinic [1862 quinic] acid crystallizes in colourless, oblique rhombic prisms, which have a strongly acid taste. 1860New Sydenham Soc. Year-bk. (1861) 413 Quinic ether inhalations in ague. 1880C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark 31 In 1803 another chemist found a crystalline substance in the bark which..was nothing more than the combination of lime with an acid which was named quinic acid. |