What does sorbic acid mean?

sorbic acid means "a white crystalline carboxylic acid used as a preservative".

Is sorbic acid a common word?

sorbic 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.

sorbic acid — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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a white crystalline carboxylic acid used as a preservative
Broadercarboxylic acid

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What does sorbic acid mean?: sorbic acid means "a white crystalline carboxylic acid used as a preservative".
Is sorbic acid a common word?: sorbic 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sorbic acid come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.

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