a colorless pungent liquid widely used in manufacturing plastics and pharmaceuticals
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a dicarboxylic acid used to make resins
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Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered.
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.an organic acid characterized by one or more carboxyl groups
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.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.An oil used for illuminating purposes, formerly obtained from the distillation of mineral wax, bituminous shale, etc., and hence calle…
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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A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain processes of oxidation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dicarboxylic, acid, resins.A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dicarboxylic, acid, resins.a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dicarboxylic, acid, resins.colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesive…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dicarboxylic, acid, resins.a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dicarboxylic, acid, resins.a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dicarboxylic, acid, resins.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: dicarboxylic, acid, resins.A colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon, CH3.C6H4.C3H7, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dicarboxylic, acid, resins.A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dicarboxylic, acid, resins.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: dicarboxylic, acid, resins.The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dicarboxylic, acid, resins.a colorless liquid hydrocarbon extracted from petroleum or coal tar and used in making synthetic resins
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