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PENTANOIC ACID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pentanoic acid mean?
• PENTANOIC ACID (noun)
The noun PENTANOIC ACID has 1 sense:
1. a clear liquid carboxylic acid used in perfumes and drugs
Familiarity information: PENTANOIC ACID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A clear liquid carboxylic acid used in perfumes and drugs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
pentanoic acid; valeric acid
Hypernyms ("pentanoic acid" is a kind of...):
carboxylic acid (an organic acid characterized by one or more carboxyl groups)
Context examples
Hexahydro-2-oxo-1H-thieno(3,4-d)imidazole-4-pentanoic acid.
(Biotin, NCI Thesaurus)
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