heptadecanoic acid

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   a colorless crystalline synthetic fatty acid

   Synonymsmargaric acid

   Broadersaturated fatty acid

Questions about heptadecanoic acid

What does heptadecanoic acid mean?

heptadecanoic acid means "a colorless crystalline synthetic fatty acid".

What is another word for heptadecanoic acid?

Close synonyms include margaric 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 heptadecanoic acid a common word?

heptadecanoic 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.