uvitic

from The Century Dictionary.

• Noting an acid, 1-methylisophthalic acid, a colorless compound, prepared by the oxidation of mesitylene with nitric acid. It crystallizes in slender needles, melts at 287–288° C., and may be sublimed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, CH3C6H3(CO2H)2, obtained as a white crystalline substance by the partial oxidation of mesitylene; -- called also mesitic acid.