a. Chem. [f. Gr. κρήνη spring, fountain -IC.] In Crenic acid, an organic acid, existing, according to Berzelius, in vegetable mould, and in ochreous deposits of ferruginous waters. (Watts.)
1838. T. Thomson, Chem. Org. Bodies, 147. Crenic acid … was discovered by Berzelius in the year 1832.
1863–72. Watts, Dict. Chem., II. 103. Mulder represents crenic acid by the formula C12 H12 O8.
