Difference between Citric and Acid

What is the difference between Citric and Acid?

Citric as an adjective is of, pertaining to, or derived from, the citron or lemon. while Acid as an adjective is sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.

Citric

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the citron or lemon.

Acid

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.Sour-tempered.Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A sour substance.Any of a class of water-soluble compounds, having sour taste, that turn blue litmus red, and react with some metals to liberate hydrogen, and with bases to form salts.Any compound that easily donates protons.Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond.lysergic acid diethylamide

Example sentence: The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.

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