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Definition of Sorbic
1. a. Pertaining to, or obtained from, the rowan tree, or sorb; specifically, designating an acid, C&?;H&?;CO&?;H, of the acetylene series, found in the unripe berries of this tree, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
Definition of Sorbic
1. Adjective. Of, or relating to the rowan tree (the sorb). ¹
2. Adjective. (chemistry) Of, or derived from sorbic acid. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sorbic
1. pertaining to a type of fruit [adj]
Medical Definition of Sorbic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sorbic
Literary usage of Sorbic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of Chemistry for the Use of Students of Medicine by Franklin Bache (1819)
"OF sorbic* ACID. in the expressed juice of the berries of the mountain ash 1U 'lii€°-
... This chemist also suggests that sorbic acid, being colourless and ..."
2. A System of Chemistry for the Use of Students of Medicine by Franklin Bache (1819)
"I. sorbic ACID was discovered, in 1815, by Donovan, Sorbie acid; in the expressed
juice of the berries of the mountain ash ..."
3. Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics by Thomas Thomson (1818)
"If the sorbate of lead be obtained by double affinity, it afford» different
results ; in this case it consists of sorbic acid 32-57 Oxide of lead 67-4» ..."
4. Wöhler's Outlines of Organic Chemistry by Friedrich Wöhler, Ira Remsen, Rudolph Fittig (1873)
"The acids of this series are formed, like the hydrocarbons, by heating the
dibromides of the acids CMP'-2O2 with alcoholic potassa. 1. sorbic Acid. ..."
5. The Elements of Experimental Chemistry by William Henry, Robert Hare (1823)
"Identity of Malic and sorbic Acids.—Vol. II. p. 162. BY a train of experiments,
Braconnot has been led to conclude, that the sorbic acid is essentially the ..."
6. An Introduction to the Study of the Compounds of Carbon; Or, Organic Chemistry by Ira Remsen (1909)
"Dibrom-caproic acid It will be observed that sorbic acid is a diethylene derivative
and that it does not contain the acetylene condition. ..."
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