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99%8Exact Match!
noun

• Any salt or ester of citric acid.

verb

• To cause to form citrate.

31%12 Can be prepared by reacting iron(III) salts with cyanide salts
noun

• salt of ferricyanic acid obtained by oxidation of a ferrocyanide

31%7Boxes within boxes
adjective

• of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures

• of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language

noun

• any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system

• a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China

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