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A salt of capric acid.

Of or pertaining to capric acid or its derivatives. Capric acid, C9H9.CO2H, Caprylic acid, C7H15.CO2H, and Caproic acid, C5H11.CO2H, are fatty acids occurring in small quantities in butter, cocoanut oil, etc., united with glycerin; they are colorless oils, or white crystalline solids, of an unpleasant odor like that of…

A salt of caproic acid.

A salt of caprylic acid.

An East Indian tree (Averrhoa Carambola), and its acid, juicy fruit; called also Coromandel gooseberry.

Pertaining to an acid so called. Carbamic acid (Chem.), an amido acid, NH2.CO2H, not existing in the free state, but occurring as a salt of ammonium in commercial ammonium carbonate; -- called also amido formic acid.

A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid.

A salt of carbazotic or picric acid; a picrate.

Containing, or derived from, carbon and nitrogen. Carbazotic acid (Chem.), picric acid. See under Picric.

The technical name for isocyanic acid. See under Isocyanic.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from coal tar and other sources; as, carbolic acid (called also phenic acid, and phenol). See Phenol.

To apply carbonic acid to; to wash or treat with carbolic acid.

isms or tables. When united with oxygen it forms carbon dioxide, commonly called carbonic acid, or carbonic oxide, according to the proportions of the oxygen; when united with hydrogen, it forms various compounds called hydrocarbons. Compare Diamond, and Graphite. Carbon compounds, Compounds of carbon (Chem.), those co…

The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. Knight.

A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.

Combined or impregnated with carbonic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, carbon; as, carbonic oxide. Carbonic acid (Chem.), an acid H2CO3, not existing separately, which, combined with positive or basic atoms or radicals, forms carbonates. On common language the term is very generally applied to a compound of carbon and oxygen, CO2, more correctly called…

A white crystalline substance, C9H6N.OH, of acid properties derived from one of the amido cinnamic acids.

radical, CO.OH, regarded as the essential and characteristic constituent which all oxygen acids of carbon (as formic, acetic, benzoic acids, etc.) have in common; -- called also oxatyl.

r in a box, for protection; -- used commonly for carrying corrosive liquids; as sulphuric acid, etc.