mucicadj.

1807 A. Aikin & C. R. Aikin Dict. Chem. & Mineral. II. 100/1 Sugar of milk when boiled with nitric acid..is converted..partly into..Saccholactic Acid, or Acid of Sugar of Milk... It was first discovered by..Scheele, and has been found to be identic with the mucous acid.]

1809 T. Young in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 99 158 (table) Sulfuric acid 1000..Mucic 900.

1815 tr. J. J. Berzelius in Ann. Philos. 5 179 Mucous acid (saclactic acid). [ T. Thomson in Note] The name mucous acid is very improper, because it indicates an acid in ous, which cannot exist without one in ic with the same radical. I have not, however, thought to change it, because mucic acid might..appear ridiculous.

c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 412/2 Mucic acid is obtained by the action of nitric acid on gum, and the sugar of milk.

1906 H. J. H. Fenton Notes Qualitative Anal. (new ed.) 115 Lactose... Heated with dilute nitric acid it first undergoes inversion, and is then oxidised to mucic and saccharic acids, &c.

1920 C. F. Cross & E. J. Bevan Text-bk. Paper-making (ed. 5) 45 Warmed with concentrated sulphuric acid it [sc. cellulose] develops a pink coloration similar to that of mucic acid.

1967 I. L. Finar Org. Chem. (ed. 5) I. xxx. 792 If salts of mucic acid with primary amines are decomposed as above, then N-substituted pyrroles are obtained.

2000 Jrnl. Chromatogr. A. 867 131 We characterized the retention of carboxylates (formic, acetic,..malic, mucic..acids) on a column with higher hydrophilicity.

1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 337 Of mucic ether... One part of mucic acid was mixed with parts of sulphuric acid.

1906 H. F. Morley & M. M. P. Muir Watts' Dict. Chem. III. 441/2 Mucic ether is reduced by sodium-amalgam to an acid which strongly reduces Fehling's solution.