Vocabulary : Acetophenone to Acharnement

Acetophenone : A crystalline ketone, CH3COC6H5, which may be obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.
Acetose : Sour like vinegar; acetous.
Acetosity : The quality of being acetous; sourness.
Acetous : Having a sour taste; sour; acid. ;; Causing, or connected with, acetification; as, acetous fermentation.
Acetyl : A complex, hypothetical radical, composed of two parts of carbon to three of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Its hydroxide is acetic acid.

Acetylene : A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant.
Ach : Alt. of Ache
Achaean : Alt. of Achaian
Achaian : Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian. ;; A native of Achaia; a Greek.
Acharnement : Savage fierceness; ferocity.

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