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monocarboxylic

[ mon-uh-kahr-bok-sil-ik ]

adjective

, Chemistry.
  1. containing one carboxyl group.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of monocarboxylic1

First recorded in 1905–10; mono- + carboxyl + -ic

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Example Sentences

It is apparently a tropidine monocarboxylic acid, for on exhaustive methylation it yields cycloheptatriene-135-carboxylic acid-7.

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