Sorbic acid Moderate

Sorbic acid has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Definitions

Noun

a white crystalline carboxylic acid used as a preservative

sorbic acid

an unsaturated aliphatic carboxylic acid, CH₃.CH:CH.CH:CH.COOH, found in Rowan berries, and used as a preservative

See Also

unsaturated crotanaldehyde preservative potassium sorbate carboxylic acid aliphatic sorbate sorbic

Related Terms

unsaturated crotanaldehyde preservative potassium sorbate carboxylic acid aliphatic sorbate sorbic berries hydrosorbic acid calcium sorbate rowan sodium sorbate

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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