† thannicadj.
Etymology: < Thann (name of a town in the Vosges where Kestner the discoverer lived) + -ic suffix.
Chemistry.
Obsolete.
1853 13 110 Racemic acid was..discovered by Kestner,..in the year 1820. It was called thannic acid by its discoverer.
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