sebacic acid

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   a dicarboxylic acid used to make resins

   Synonymsdecanedioic acid

   Broadercarboxylic acid

Questions about sebacic acid

What does sebacic acid mean?

sebacic acid means "a dicarboxylic acid used to make resins".

What is another word for sebacic acid?

Close synonyms include decanedioic 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 sebacic acid a common word?

sebacic 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.