Definition of Phthalic

1. a. Pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid obtained by the oxidation of naphthalene and allied substances.

Definition of Phthalic

1. Adjective. (chemistry) of, relating to, or derived from naphthalene or phthalic acid ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Phthalic

1. pertaining to a certain acid [adj]

Medical Definition of Phthalic

1. Pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid obtained by the oxidation of naphthalene and allied substances. Phthalic acid, a white crystalline substance, C6H4.(CO2H)2, analogous to benzoic acid, and employed in the brilliant dyestuffs called the phthaleins. Origin: Naphthalene + -ic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phthalic

phrynolysin
pht
phthalate
phthalate dioxygenase
phthalate ester hydrolase
phthalate oxygenase reductase
phthalates
phthalazine
phthalazines
phthalazone
phthalazones
phthalein
phthalein dyes
phthalein test
phthaleins
phthalic (current term)
phthalic acid
phthalic acids
phthalic anhydride
phthalic anhydrides
phthalide
phthalides
phthalidomide
phthalidyltheophylline hydrolase
phthalimide
phthalimides
phthalimidine
phthalimidines
phthalimido
phthalimidyl

Literary usage of Phthalic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1910)
"In the course of the work described in our earlier paper, we studied the interaction of phthalic anhydride on a number of amino derivatives other than those ..."

2. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1910)
"1 grm. of phthalic acid should on heating leave behind no weighable residue. A solution of 1 grm. of phthalic acid in 25 cc of boiling water should only ..."

3. Technical Methods of Chemical Analysis by Georg Lunge, Charles Alexander Keane, E. Adam, P. Aulich, T. L. Bailey, C. O. Bannister (1914)
"COOH(2) phthalic acid crystallises in small, colourless plates or prisms melting at 213° and soluble in 200 parts of water, 10 parts of alcohol, ..."

4. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"The dichloride dissolves slowly with evolution of nitrous vapours, and the solution, when left to itself, deposits crystals of phthalic acid, which may be ..."

5. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1888)
"On heating with sulphuric or nitric acids, ben zoic acid is also formed, together with phthalic acid, while ethyl benzoate, probably accompanied by ethyl ..."

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