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What does orthocarbonic mean?
Designating a complex ether, C.(OC2H5)4 , which is obtained as a liquid of a pleasant ethereal odor by means of chlorpicrin, and is believed to be a derivative of the hypothetical normal carbonic acid, C.(OH)4 .

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