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Acetic acid Common

Acetic acid has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a colorless pungent liquid widely used in manufacturing plastics and pharmaceuticals

2

A clear colourless organic acid, CH₃COOH, formed by the oxidation of ethanol; it is used as a solvent and has very many industrial applications; it is the major acidic component of vinegar.

See Also
major acetotartrate ethyl acetate neodecanoic acid cyanoacetic acid dichlorophenoxyacetic acid application haloacetic acid
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
carboxylic acid
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
acetum trichloroacetic acid vinegar
Rhyming Words
cid acid scid picid arcid alcid mucid lucid ficid lycid coccid esocid odacid marcid muscid raucid chacid viscid caecid diacid
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