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Definition of Sorbic acid
1. Noun. A white crystalline carboxylic acid used as a preservative.
Definition of Sorbic acid
1. Noun. (chemistry) an unsaturated aliphatic carboxylic acid, CH3.CH:CH.CH:CH.COOH, found in Rowan berries, and used as a preservative ¹
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Medical Definition of Sorbic acid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sorbic Acid
Literary usage of Sorbic acid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Study of the Compounds of Carbon; Or, Organic Chemistry by Ira Remsen (1909)
"Dibrom-caproic acid It will be observed that sorbic acid is a diethylene derivative
and that it does not contain the acetylene condition. ..."
2. A System of Chemistry for the Use of Students of Medicine by Franklin Bache (1819)
"sorbic acid, when first obtained, is a liquid, colour- Us proper- less and inodorous,
... This chemist also suggests that sorbic acid, being colourless and ..."
3. A System of Chemistry for the Use of Students of Medicine by Franklin Bache (1819)
"I. sorbic acid was discovered, in 1815, by Donovan, Sorbie acid; in the expressed
juice of the berries of the mountain ash ..."
4. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"sorbic acid is easily purified by recrystallisation from hot water; ... Produced by
the action of phosphoric chloride on sorbic acid or its potassium-salt. ..."
5. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"For if water be boiled on malate of lead, no crystals are to be obtained on
cooling the liquor; but when the malate is boiled in sorbic acid, the malate is ..."
6. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1859)
"sorbic acid may be considered as the first term of a new ... sorbic acid.
Toluic Acid. Ce H, О,. C,s Hs О,. С» H, О,. On the Preparation of Calcium and ..."
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