itaconic acid

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   a crystalline carboxylic acid; occurs in some fermentations of sugars

   Broaderacid

Questions about itaconic acid

What does itaconic acid mean?

itaconic acid means "a crystalline carboxylic acid; occurs in some fermentations of sugars".

Is itaconic acid a common word?

itaconic 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.