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succinic
noun(suc-cin-ic acid)
a crystalline dicarboxylic acid C4H6O4 found widely in nature and active in energy-yielding metabolic reactions
succinic
noun(suc-cin-ic acid)
an iron-containing flavoprotein enzyme that catalyzes often reversibly the dehydrogenation of succinic acid to fumaric acid in the Krebs cycle and that is widely distributed especially in animal tissues, bacteria, and yeast —called also succinic dehydrogenase

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