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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 drugsplay

  Familiarity information: PENTANOIC ACID used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PENTANOIC ACID (noun)


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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