a colorless pungent liquid widely used in manufacturing plastics and pharmaceuticals
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Propionic acid
a liquid fatty acid found in milk and sweat and in fuel distillates
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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.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.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
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A crystalline, transparent, colorless substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; -- formerly called allantoic acid and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liquid, fatty, acid, found, milk.A drop of sweat or other liquid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liquid, fatty, acid, found, milk.Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; -- sometimes called simply clabber.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liquid, fatty, acid, found, milk.An instrument for determining the amount of fatty matter or butter contained in a sample of milk.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liquid, fatty, acid, found, milk.A proteid substance present in both the animal and the vegetable kingdom. In the animal kingdom it is chiefly found in milk, and const…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liquid, fatty, acid, found, milk.The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liquid, fatty, acid, found, milk.The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liquid, fatty, acid, found, milk.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: liquid, fatty, acid, found, milk.Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liquid, fatty, acid, found, milk.Pertaining to, or derived from, a genus of cruciferous Mediterranean herbs (Eruca or Brassica); as, erucic acid, a fatty acid resembli…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liquid, fatty, acid, found, milk.Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liquid, fatty, acid, found, milk.an ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils; "fresh fats contain glycerides of fatty acids and v…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: liquid, fatty, acid, found, milk.
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