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  • adjective Of or pertaining to hexanoic acid or its derivatives; caproic

Etymologies

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From hexane + -oic

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Examples

  • The acids may be either tart substances in the cell fluids or vacuole—acetic acid, cinnamic acid—or fatty-acid portions of oil molecules and the molecules that make up cell membranes: hexanoic acid, butyric acid.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • The acids may be either tart substances in the cell fluids or vacuole—acetic acid, cinnamic acid—or fatty-acid portions of oil molecules and the molecules that make up cell membranes: hexanoic acid, butyric acid.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • A mixture of 1-hexanol and hexanoic acid in diethyl ether is shaken with an aqueous sodium bicarbonate?

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • Although, the protein utilized a number of fatty acids as substrate such as propionic acid, hexanoic acid, decanoic acid, lauric acid, palmitic acid, stearic acid and oleic acid (data not shown) as is the case with many other known Fatty Acyl-CoA Synthetases

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Garima Khare et al. 2009

  • < 1, 10 > [6, 62] hexadecanoic acid (IC50: 0.00067 mM [64]) [64] hexanoic acid

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