Sacchulmic

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sacchulmic \Sac*chul"mic\, a. [Saccharine + ulmic.] (Chem.)
     Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a dark
     amorphous substance by the long-continued boiling of sucrose
     with very dilute sulphuric acid. It resembles humic acid.
     [Written also {sacculmic}.]
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