Definition of Propanoic acid

1. Noun. A liquid fatty acid found in milk and sweat and in fuel distillates.


Definition of Propanoic acid

1. Noun. A colourless liquid with a sharp unpleasant odour; produced by the bacterial breakdown of fatty acids and therefore found in sweat and some cheese. ¹

2. Noun. (organic compound) The short chain aliphatic carboxylic acid, CH3CH2COOH, used as a preservative, and in the manufacture of many chemical compounds. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Propanoic Acid

propanal
propanals
propanamide
propane
propanedinitrile
propanedioate
propanedioates
propanedioic acid
propanediol
propanelike
propanes
propanil
propanoate
propanoates
propanoic
propanoic acid (current term)
propanol
propanolol
propanols
propanone
propargyl
propargylamide
propargylamides
propargylamine
propargylation
propargylglycine
propargylglycines
propargylic
propargyls
proparoxytone

Literary usage of Propanoic acid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allelopathy in Rice by M. Olofsdotter (1998)
"For example, most of the Rexmont samples produced chromatograms that had area counts of less than 10000 for 3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)propanoic acid, ..."

2. The Chemistry and Analysis of Drugs and Medicines by Henry Corbin Fuller (1920)
"From this it may be distinguished by its melting-point, and by identifying the propanoic acid evolved when heated with 50 per cent sulphuric acid. ..."

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