Acidum lacticum

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Ordinary liactic Acid—Lactic acid of fermentation—Optically inactive ethylidene lactic acid—Acidum lacticum (tT. S.)—exists in nature, widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, and as the product of a fermentation which is designated as the lactic, in milk, sour-krout, fermented beet-juice, and rice, and in the liquid refuse of starch factories and tanneries. 

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