acetic acid

English

Noun

acetic acid (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) A clear colourless organic acid, CH₃COOH, formed by the bacterial oxidation of ethanol through acetic fermentation; it is used as a solvent and has very many industrial applications; it is the major acidic component of vinegar.

Synonyms

• E260 when used as a preservative
• ethanoic acid, the systematic alternative name

Coordinate terms

• acetate (coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution)

Derived terms

• bromoacetic acid
• cetirizine
• etacrynic acid
• glacial acetic acid
• haloacetic acid
• iminoacetic acid
• indometacin
• iodoacetic acid
• naphthaleneacetic acid
• oxaloacetic acid
• peracetic acid
• thioacetic acid

 

Related terms

• acetic anhydride
• acetaldehyde
• acetylsalicylic acid
• glacial acetic acid

Translations

clear colourless organic acid, CH₃COOH

• Catalan: àcid acètic m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 乙酸 (jyut⁶ syun¹), 醋酸 (cou³ syun¹)

  Mandarin: 乙酸 (zh) (yǐsuān), 醋酸 (zh) (cùsuān)

• Danish: eddikesyre (da) c
• Dutch: azijnzuur (nl) n
• Faroese: edikssýra f
• Finnish: etikkahappo (fi)
• French: acide acétique (fr) m
• German: Essigsäure (de) f, Ethansäure (de) f
• Greek: οξικό οξύ n (oxikó oxý)
• Gujarati: શુક્તામ્લ (śuktāmla)
• Hindi: शुक्ताम्ल (hi) (śuktāmla)
• Hungarian: ecetsav (hu)
• Indonesian: asam cuka (id), asam asetat (id)
• Irish: aigéad aicéiteach m
• Italian: acido acetico (it) m
• Japanese: 酢酸 (ja) (さくさん, sakusan)
• Javanese: asem cuka
• Latvian: etiķskābe (lv) f
• Macedonian: оцетна киселина f (ocetna kiselina)
• Malay: asid asetik
• Maori: waikawa winika
• Marathi: शुक्ताम्ल (śuktāmla)
• Mongolian: цууны хүчил (cuuny xüčil)
• Nepali: शुक्ताम्ल (śuktāmla)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: eddiksyre m or f

  Nynorsk: eddiksyre f

• Persian: استیک اسید (asetik asid)
• Polish: kwas octowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: ácido acético m
• Romanian: acid acetic (ro) m
• Russian: у́ксусная кислота́ (ru) f (úksusnaja kislotá)
• Spanish: ácido acético (es) m
• Swedish: ättiksyra (sv) c, etansyra (sv)
• Turkish: asetik asit (tr)
• Vietnamese: axit axetic

Further reading

• acetic acid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia