propionic acid

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

   Synonymspropanoic acid

   Broadercarboxylic acid

Questions about propionic acid

What does propionic acid mean?

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

What is another word for propionic acid?

Close synonyms include propanoic 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 propionic acid a common word?

propionic 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.