Official name of pyruvic acid

Write the official name of pyruvic acid?

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Pyruvic acid is 2-oxopropanoic acid. It is therefore a molecule made up of three linearly bound carbons with one extremity making the organic acid function (that is, COOH) and the middle carbon binding to an oxygen atom by the double bond.

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