pentanoic acid

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   a clear liquid carboxylic acid used in perfumes and drugs

   Synonymsvaleric acid

   Broadercarboxylic acid

Questions about pentanoic acid

What does pentanoic acid mean?

pentanoic acid means "a clear liquid carboxylic acid used in perfumes and drugs".

What is another word for pentanoic acid?

Close synonyms include valeric 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 pentanoic acid a common word?

pentanoic 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.