phthalic acid

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   a colorless acid used to make dyes and perfumes

   Broaderacid

Questions about phthalic acid

What does phthalic acid mean?

phthalic acid means "a colorless acid used to make dyes and perfumes".

Is phthalic acid a common word?

phthalic 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.