adipic acid

English

Ball-and-stick model of a molecule of adipic acid.

Noun

adipic acid (uncountable)

(organic chemistry) A white crystalline dicarboxylic acid, ${\ce {C4H8(COOH)2}}$ ; it has many industrial applications; when condensed with hexamethylene diamine it produces nylon.

Synonyms

E355 when used as an acidity regulator
hexanedioic acid (IUPAC)
butane-1,4-dicarboxylic acid
butanedicarboxylic acid

Derived terms

Translations

crystalline dicarboxylic acid

Catalan: àcid adípic m
Dutch: adipinezuur n
Finnish: adipiinihappo
German: Adipinsäure (de) f
Hungarian: adipinsav
Indonesian: asam adipat
Italian: acido adipico (it)
Javanese: asem adhipat
Latvian: adipīnskābe f
Polish: kwas adypinowy m
Portuguese: ácido adípico m
Romanian: acid adipic (ro) m
Russian: адипи́новая кислота́ (ru) f (adipínovaja kislotá)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: адипинска киселина f

Roman: adipinska kiselina f
Slovak: kyselina adipová f
Slovene: adipinska kislina f
Spanish: ácido adípico
Swedish: adipinsyra (sv) c

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