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Definition of Propionic acid
1. Noun. A liquid fatty acid found in milk and sweat and in fuel distillates.
Substance meronyms: Fenoprofen, Fenoprofen Calcium, Nalfon, Ansaid, Flurbiprofen, Advil, Ibuprofen, Isobutylphenyl Propionic Acid, Motrin, Nuprin, Ketoprofen, Orudis, Orudis Kt, Oruvail, Naprosyn, Naproxen, Aflaxen, Aleve, Anaprox, Naproxen Sodium, Daypro, Oxaprozin
Generic synonyms: Carboxylic Acid
Definition of Propionic acid
1. Noun. (organic compound) The compound with the formula CH3CH2COOH, a naturally occurring carboxylic acid with a pungent odor. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Propionic Acid
Literary usage of Propionic acid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"There is also a number of special reactions which furnish propionic acid, but
they yield it mixed with some of its homologues. ..."
2. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"The synthetic production of propionic acid from ethyl cyanide ... propionic acid
is also formed in a variety of other ways, thus, ..."
3. A Manual of Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1873)
"propionic acid is usually prepared by the second of the above-mentioned processes.
Ethyl cyanide is added by drops to a moderately strong solution of ..."
4. Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius (1897)
"propionic acid and butyric acid are often found associated with each other, and
with formic and acetic acids, in fermented liquids, guano, urine, ..."
5. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1867)
"propionic acid may also be obtained as Wanklyn has shown, by acting upon ...
Another interesting reaction which furnishes propionic acid is that which ..."
6. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"propionic acid (Seligmann and Williams, J. Soc. Chem. Ind. 1910, 88). Salicylic
acid (Г1) (Lunge, Ie). Sodium chloride (2). Sodium hydroxide (460 for a ..."
7. An Introduction to the Study of the Compounds of Carbon; Or, Organic Chemistry by Ira Remsen (1910)
"Those products which are obtained by direct treatment of propionic acid with
substituting agents are called a-products, and the isomeric substances ..."
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