alginic acid

1. 1.

   a gum used especially as a thickener or emulsifier

   Synonymsalgin

   Broadergum

Questions about alginic acid

What does alginic acid mean?

alginic acid means "a gum used especially as a thickener or emulsifier".

What is another word for alginic acid?

Close synonyms include algin. 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 alginic acid a common word?

alginic acid 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.