adipic acid

English

Ball-and-stick model of a molecule of adipic acid.

Noun

adipic acid (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) A white crystalline dicarboxylic acid, ${\ce {C4H8(COOH)2}}$; it has many industrial applications; when condensed with hexamethylene diamine it produces nylon.

Synonyms

• E355 when used as an acidity regulator
• hexanedioic acid (IUPAC)
• butane-1,4-dicarboxylic acid
• butanedicarboxylic acid

Derived terms

• aminoadipic acid
• ketoadipic acid

Translations

crystalline dicarboxylic acid

• Catalan: àcid adípic m
• Dutch: adipinezuur n
• Finnish: adipiinihappo
• German: Adipinsäure (de) f
• Hungarian: adipinsav (hu)
• Indonesian: asam adipat
• Italian: acido adipico (it)
• Javanese: asem adhipat
• Latvian: adipīnskābe f
• Polish: kwas adypinowy m
• Portuguese: ácido adípico m
• Romanian: acid adipic (ro) m
• Russian: адипи́новая кислота́ (ru) f (adipínovaja kislotá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: адипинска киселина f

  Roman: adipinska kiselina f

• Slovak: kyselina adipová f
• Slovene: adipinska kislina f
• Spanish: ácido adípico
• Swedish: adipinsyra (sv) c