carboxylic
IPA: kɑrbɔksˈɪɫɪk
adjective
- (organic chemistry) Of, or relating to the carboxyl functional group.
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Examples of "carboxylic" in Sentences
- Human skin oils are full of molecules called carboxylic acids.
- Oxea is a global supplier of solvents, polyols and oxo derivatives such as carboxylic acids, esters and amines.
- OXEA is a global supplier of solvents, polyols and oxo derivatives such as carboxylic acids, esters and amines.
- Such a combination gives acid properties to a molecule and it is called a carboxylic acid group (carbon plus oxygen plus acid).
- Oxea is a global supplier of solvents, polyols and oxo derivatives such as carboxylic acids, olefin derivatives and alkylamines.
- Saponification involves hydrolysis of esters under basic conditions to form an alcohol and the salt of a carboxylic acid carboxylates, producing a soap-like solid from the fatty acid derivatives.
- The focus then shifts to a systematic presentation of the various substrates classes, namely carboxylic esters, amides and peptides, lactams and lactones, esters of inorganic acids, alkene and arene epoxides, and some miscellaneous hydrolyzable moieties.
- Agricultural wastes are now becoming viable alternatives since they are abundantly available, much cheaper and have various functional groups such as carboxylic acid, ester, carboxylate, hydroxyl, phenolic and amino that can act as adsorption sites for heavy metal ions.
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