lactic acid

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   a clear odorless hygroscopic syrupy carboxylic acid found in sour milk and in many fruits

   Broadercarboxylic acid

Questions about lactic acid

What does lactic acid mean?

lactic acid means "a clear odorless hygroscopic syrupy carboxylic acid found in sour milk and in many fruits".

Is lactic acid a common word?

lactic acid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.