sulphanilic acid

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   a crystalline acid made from aniline and used as a dye

   Synonymssulfanilic acid

   Broaderacid

Questions about sulphanilic acid

What does sulphanilic acid mean?

sulphanilic acid means "a crystalline acid made from aniline and used as a dye".

What is another word for sulphanilic acid?

Close synonyms include sulfanilic 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 sulphanilic acid a common word?

sulphanilic 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.