carboxylic acid

car·box·yl·ic acid  (kärbk-slk)

n.

An organic acid that contains one or more carboxyl groups.

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carboxylic acid  (kärbk-slk)

An organic acid containing one or more carboxyl groups. Carboxylic acids often have names ending in -oic acid, such as benzoic acid. Amino acids, fatty acids, and many other important organic compounds are carboxylic acids.

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Noun

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carboxylic acid - an organic acid characterized by one or more carboxyl groups acetic acid, ethanoic acid - a colorless pungent liquid widely used in manufacturing plastics and pharmaceuticals acid - any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt adipic acid, hexanedioic acid - a carboxylic acid used in the manufacture of nylon mucic acid - a solid acid (C6H10O8) found in milk or sugar octanedioic acid, suberic acid - a dicarboxylic acid found in cork succinic acid - a dicarboxylic acid (C4H6O4) active in metabolic processes saccharic acid - a white dicarboxylic acid formed from oxidation of sugar or starch decanedioic acid, sebacic acid - a dicarboxylic acid used to make resins sorbic acid - a white crystalline carboxylic acid used as a preservative pentanoic acid, valeric acid - a clear liquid carboxylic acid used in perfumes and drugs fatty acid - any of a class of aliphatic monocarboxylic acids that form part of a lipid molecule and can be derived from fat by hydrolysis; fatty acids are simple molecules built around a series of carbon atoms linked together in a chain of 12 to 22 carbon atoms benzoic acid - a white crystalline solid occurring in many resins propanoic acid, propionic acid - a liquid fatty acid found in milk and sweat and in fuel distillates lactic acid - a clear odorless hygroscopic syrupy carboxylic acid found in sour milk and in many fruits acrylic acid, propenoic acid - an unsaturated liquid carboxylic acid used in the manufacture of acrylic resins