acid anhydrides

1. 1.

   organic compounds that react with water to form an acid

   Synonymsacyl anhydrides

   Broaderorganic compound

Questions about acid anhydrides

What does acid anhydrides mean?

acid anhydrides means "organic compounds that react with water to form an acid".

What is another word for acid anhydrides?

Close synonyms include acyl anhydrides. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acid anhydrides a common word?

acid anhydrides is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.