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Definition of Benzoic acid
1. Noun. A white crystalline solid occurring in many resins.
Definition of Benzoic acid
1. Noun. (organic compound) A white crystalline organic acid, C6H5COOH; the simplest aromatic carboxylic acid; used as a food preservative and in many other industrial applications. ¹
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Medical Definition of Benzoic acid
1. C6H5COOH;occurs naturally in gum benzoin; it is used as a food preservative, locally as a fungistatic, and orally as an antiseptic, diuretic, and expectorant. It is excreted rapidly as hippuric acid. Synonym: benzoyl hydrate, flowers of benzoin. (05 Mar 2000)
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Literary usage of Benzoic acid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius, Samuel William Johnson (1883)
"Pure benzoic acid forms inodorous white scales or needles, or simply a crystalline
powder. ... The common officinal benzoic acid has the odor of benzoin, ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"... -benzoic Acid: By CHAS. WALKER. When the sulphonic acid described in the last
paper was converted into an amide and fused with potassium hydroxide the ..."
3. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"In case of butter the specimen is first extracted with sodium carbonate in water,
kneading it thoroughly and then proceeding as in wine. 4. benzoic acid. ..."
4. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1888)
"It is scarcely soluble in cold, only slightly in boiling water, but more readily
in hot benzene, and sublimes less readily than benzoic acid, in flat, ..."
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