propanoic acid

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   a liquid fatty acid found in milk and sweat and in fuel distillates

   Synonymspropionic acid

   Broadercarboxylic acid

Questions about propanoic acid

What does propanoic acid mean?

propanoic acid means "a liquid fatty acid found in milk and sweat and in fuel distillates".

What is another word for propanoic acid?

Close synonyms include propionic 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 propanoic acid a common word?

propanoic 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.