a colorless pungent liquid widely used in manufacturing plastics and pharmaceuticals
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Carboxylic acid
an organic acid characterized by one or more carboxyl groups
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any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt
Used in the same subject area: Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.an unsaturated liquid carboxylic acid used in the manufacture of acrylic resins
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.a carboxylic acid used in the manufacture of nylon
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.a white crystalline solid occurring in many resins
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.hydrocarbon gases, usually propane or butane, kept under pressure
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science.a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science.a dicarboxylic acid used to make resins
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.an organic compound containing two carboxyl functional groups (-COOH).; "The most widely used dicarboxylic acid in the industry is adi…
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.a colorless pungent liquid widely used in manufacturing plastics and pharmaceuticals
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.any of a class of aliphatic monocarboxylic acids that form part of a lipid molecule and can be derived from fat by hydrolysis; fatty a…
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.a carboxylic acid used in the manufacture of nylon
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science.a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science.a clear odorless hygroscopic syrupy carboxylic acid found in sour milk and in many fruits
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science, Pollution.a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science.hydrocarbon gases, usually propane or butane, kept under pressure
Used in the same subject area: Organic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry, Environmental science.a colorless poisonous gas; made by the oxidation of methanol
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An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; -- so called b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organic, acid, characterized, carboxyl, groups.The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organic, acid, characterized, carboxyl, groups.an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organic, acid, characterized, carboxyl, groups.any of the enzymes that hydrolize the carboxyl group
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organic, acid, characterized, carboxyl, groups.the process of removing a carboxyl group from a chemical compound (usually replacing it with hydrogen)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organic, acid, characterized, carboxyl, groups.Any compound containing two amido groups united with one or more acid or negative radicals, -- as distinguished from a diamine. Cf. Am…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organic, acid, characterized, carboxyl, groups.any organic compound containing two amino groups
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organic, acid, characterized, carboxyl, groups.Containing two carbon residues, or two carboxyl or radicals; as, oxalic acid is a dicarbonic acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organic, acid, characterized, carboxyl, groups.An ethereal salt, or compound ether, consisting of an organic radical united with the residue of any oxygen acid, organic or inorganic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organic, acid, characterized, carboxyl, groups.any of a class of organic compounds that have two hydrocarbon groups linked by an oxygen atom
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organic, acid, characterized, carboxyl, groups.A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, with a sweet taste, formed from hippuric acid by boiling with hydrochloric acid, and present in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organic, acid, characterized, carboxyl, groups.Having half as many (three) carboxyl radicals as mellitic acid; -- said of an organic acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organic, acid, characterized, carboxyl, groups.
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