decanedioic acid

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   a dicarboxylic acid used to make resins

   Synonymssebacic acid

   Broadercarboxylic acid

Questions about decanedioic acid

What does decanedioic acid mean?

decanedioic acid means "a dicarboxylic acid used to make resins".

What is another word for decanedioic acid?

Close synonyms include sebacic acid. 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 decanedioic acid a common word?

decanedioic 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.