The final product of the complete oxidation of these acids is carbon dioxid, but when less oxygen is furnished, owing to some disease of the lungs or a disease of the nerve centers, which lessens the activity of the breathing, then Oxalic acid may be produced.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
In this case the lime is derived as before from the feed or water, or both, while the Oxalic acid is a product of the oxidation of organic acids of the feed, less oxygen having been used than in the formation of carbon dioxid.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
Thus Mr. Foss, F.S.A. The reader will have noted the Judge's severity to poor Groffin, the chemist, who had pleaded the danger of his boy mistaking Oxalic acid for Epsom salts.
"Bardell v. Pickwick"
Percy Fitzgerald