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Caprylic acid Moderate

Caprylic acid has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a fatty acid having a rancid taste; found in butter and other fats and oils

2

A fatty acid, CH₃(CH₂)₆COOH, obtained from butter and other animal fats, and used in the manufacture of perfumes and flavours.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
saturated fatty 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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