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Definition of Carboxylic acid
1. Noun. An organic acid characterized by one or more carboxyl groups.
Generic synonyms: Acid
Definition of Carboxylic acid
1. Noun. (organic chemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds containing a carboxyl functional group. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Carboxylic acid
1. An organic acid containing the functional group -COOH.Structurally, the group looks like: O=C- | OH (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carboxylic Acid
Literary usage of Carboxylic acid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"2 : 3 : ü-trihydroxy-8-methyl-a-naphthoquinone- 5-carboxylic acid, ... anthraquinone
carboxylic acid (t',,H100,), needle«, melting-point above 300", ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"For the two free carboxylic acid groups in ... As one carboxylic acid group is
neutralized in forming the ..."
3. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"... and -carboxylic acids are obtained by condensing equi-mol. parts of nitrobenzoyl
chloride, and an aromatic diamino- sulfonic or -carboxylic acid in alk. ..."
4. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1906)
"'The melting- point is 203-2040.1 It tastes very sweet.2 E. Fischer raised at
once the question whether pyrrolidin-carboxylic acid is a primary ..."
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