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Adipic acid Moderate

Adipic acid has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a carboxylic acid used in the manufacture of nylon

2

A white crystalline di-carboxylic acid, C₄H₈(COOH)₂; it has many industrial applications; when condensed with hexamethylene diamine it produces nylon.

See Also
condensed aminoadipic acid ketoadipic acid adiponitrile adipic industrial adipoyl crystalline
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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
carboxylic acid
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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