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Definition of Adipic acid
1. Noun. A carboxylic acid used in the manufacture of nylon.
Definition of Adipic acid
1. Noun. (organic compound) A white crystalline di-carboxylic acid, C4H8(COOH)2; it has many industrial applications; when condensed with hexamethylene diamine it produces nylon. ¹
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Medical Definition of Adipic acid
1. Hexanedioic acid;the dicarboxylic acid, HOOC(CH2)4COOH. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adipic Acid
Literary usage of Adipic acid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"Diamino-adipic Acid ... Jc—c—c—c—c—c< adipic acid is COOH—(CH2)4—COOH. 18.
Diamino-dihydroxy-suberic Acid, ..."
2. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"According to Arppe adipic acid is formed, together with suberic acid and ...
This body serves, therefore, as the best means of obtaining adipic acid, ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1894)
"For example, two modifications of di-benzyl adipic acid were isolated, ...
Of these derivatives of adipic acid the di-methyl alone have been previously ..."
4. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1863)
"... which it otherwise much resembles, in being fusible before the adipic acid.
С«Н"Ю4 = 03 \C^i°l[orC»S«>0>=.C"HeO'.2HO] acid forming the fifth ..."
5. Elements of Chemistry: For the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools by Victor Regnault (1853)
"Treated again with boiling water, it dissolves and deposits, on cooling, very
pure crystals of adipic acid. VOL. II. ..."
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