phthalic anhydride

1. 1.

   a white cyclic anhydride

   Broaderanhydride

Questions about phthalic anhydride

What does phthalic anhydride mean?

phthalic anhydride means "a white cyclic anhydride".

Is phthalic anhydride a common word?

phthalic anhydride 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.