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Definition of Capric acid
1. Noun. A fatty acid found in animal oils and fats; has an unpleasant smell resembling goats.
Definition of Capric acid
1. Noun. (fatty acid) A fatty acid, CH3(CH2)8COOH, obtained from animal fats, and used in the manufacture of perfumes and flavours. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capric Acid
Literary usage of Capric acid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats, and Waxes by Julius Lewkowitsch (1904)
"capric acid crystallises in fine needles, having the melting point 31-3°-31-4"
C., and boiling point 268°-270° C. under ordinary pressure; 199-5r-200° C. ..."
2. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1862)
"capric acid is also contained in small quantity in the fatty acids of the ...
capric acid crystallizes in colourless needles, which are fusible at 86° ..."
3. Physiological Chemistry by Karl Gotthelf Lehmann, George Edward Day (1851)
"Little is yet known regarding this acid in a state of purity, for what was formerly
regarded as capric acid was a mixture of capric and caprylic acids. ..."
4. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1849)
"Now if we bear in mind that Gerhardt has recently asserted that the oil of rue
is the aldehyde of capric acid, C20 HM Os, which he rendered probable by ..."
5. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"426 capric acid ... and oxidation of oleic acid,6 as well as in the oxidation of
the higher fatty acids.6 The synthesis of capric acid has been effected by ..."
6. Physiological Chemistry by Karl Gotthelf Lehmann (1855)
"Little is yet known regarding this acid in a state of purity, for what was formerly
regarded as capric acid was a mixture of capric and caprylic acids. ..."
7. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1860)
"When a solution of capric acid in absolute alcohol is saturated with hydrochloric
acid gas and precipitated by water, capric ether separates on the surface ..."
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