Normal ring

This article defines a property of commutative unital rings; a property that can be evaluated for a commutative unital ring
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Definition

A commutative unital ring is said to be normal if it is a reduced ring and further, if it is integrally closed in its total quotient ring.

This generalizes the notion of normal domain where we require the integral domain to be integrally closed in its field of fractions.